Wed. Show Prep – Bad Parenting Edition
- You thought it was bad when a 16 year old was going to sail around the world? Now a Dutch court has ruled that a 14 year old girl will be allowed to try the same thing. The libertarian in me likes the court saying that it’s up to the parents, but what does it say about the parents that they are allowing her to do it?
- A Georgia man with ALS wants to donate his organs… before he dies. He wants to be Kevorkianed, but that’s not legal in Georgia so he’s fighting it in court. This seems a little different from the “death with dignity” debate. He basically wants to do something constructive before he loses the ability to do, well pretty much everything.
- A woman claims that a baby crying directly into her ear on an airplane left her partially deaf. She’s suing the airline… how could the airline be responsible for that?
- The war against… thin people? An airline kicked off a thin woman to make room for an obese teenager who needed two seats. Kevin Smith was unavailable for comment.
- Daddy issues: Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth is facing political attacks from his daughter, who is urging voters, ‘Do not vote for my dad!’
- Great news: A Pentagon audit revealed that they cannot account for $8.7 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds. We can say one thing for sure though… I don’t have any of it.
- End of The World Update: Asteroid 1999 RQ36 could wipe out all live on Earth… in 2182. Just in time for my 200th birthday!
- Chevy is going to sell their new “electric” Volt for $41,000. That is a huge ripoff considering what the Volt actually does compared to other electric cars coming online within the next couple of years, especially the Tesla Model S. If this is the best GM has, they’re boned.
- Jeb Bush says that he is not running for President in 2012. Wonderful news. This is the United States, we don’t do dynasties.
- Health desk: According to a new study teens are losing sleep because they’re busy with technology like computers, the Internet, cell phones.
Tues. Show Prep – Separate Vacations Edition
- Snubbed: Michelle Obama is planning a mother/daughter trip to Spain for next week. The trip will include some family and friends, but not President Obama. No big deal, right? Just a girls weekend away? President Obama’s birthday is next week… ouch.
- Victory lap: Otis McDonald the man who fought the Chicago gun ban has applied for a gun permit. Otis says he’s worried that the $100 fee may be a hindrance to some potential gun owners.
- Religious Red Meat of the Day: An Augusta State University student has filed a lawsuit against her school after they told her to change her traditionalist Christian views. I’m sure a lot of people will look at this as targeting a religious persons beliefs, but what exactly would she do if she had to counsel any gays?
- Military Red Meat of the Day: Senator Barbara Boxer said that serving in the military is like being a member of Congress. Apparently Senator Barbara Boxer didn’t feel that she had belittled the military enough.
- Heartwarming Story of the Day: A 10 year old boy in Arizona is trying to send a thank you card to all 180,000 troops serving overseas. That seems to be the people serving in Iraq and Afghanistan… so if you’re patrolling the DMZ in the DPRK, you’re SOL.
- Bend over America, you’re gonna get taxed: Barack Obama’s debt commission will likely recommend a massive $26.7 trillion tax increase.
- A new study says that no matter how much exercise you get, if you spend all of your other time just sitting around it won’t do you any good.
- An 81 year old man performed surgery on himself after he was bitten by a snake. He seemed to be doing fine on his own, but his neighbor was concerned when they say the fang/cut marks and decided to contact a medical professional.
Mon. Show Prep – Revenge of the Sith Edition
- Awesome: A man in a Darth Vader costume robbed a bank in New York. How could the story get any better? His getaway vehicle was a bike. I’m guessing his place of residence is also his parents basement.
- Glenn Beck has apologized for saying the Brian Urlacher looks like a neo-Nazi. Beck says he’s not a football fan, and made the comment based on Urlacher’s shaved head. He was driven to apologize by the fact that Urlacher could kill him “with his thumb in nine seconds if he wanted to.”
- Religious Red Meat of the Day: Legal challenges to public prayer are on the rise. Does “freedom of religion” mean people shouldn’t be allowed to pray in public at all?
- Bad news for ObamaCare? At the same time President Obama wants to take over health care, Great Britain is now moving to decentralize their health care system.
- Things are getting so bad in one New York town that the mayor has ordered the government to stop buying toilet paper.
- Sam Walton = Big Brother: Wal-Mart is planning on using electronic ID tags to help fight merchandise walking out of the store on its own.
- Geeky Space Story of the Day: NASA has found as many as 140 Earth-like planets. The folks at NASA are still doing one or two things in space, and they just switched on their new Kepler spacecraft and discovered hundreds of potential planets out there, some of them are even Earth-sized. Previously the only planets we had been able to find were larger than Jupiter.
- Also, Iran will have people in space by 2019… we won’t.
- Marketing genius: A company in Britain has what it claims is the strongest beer on the planet. They are selling it in bottles made out of dead animals.
- Finally: Herobuilders has come out with an Anna Chapman action figure.
Greatest Viral Video In History?
I don’t know what compelled Ron Livingston to do that… maybe he’s dealing with his depression over the premature cancellation of Defying Gravity, maybe he’s just trying to grab headlines now that The Pacific has bumped Band Of Brothers from the front pages… but bravo sir, bravo…
Friday Night X Minus One
X Minus One: The roads must roll – 01/04/1956
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Story of future transportation when rolling roads move people and goods, and the men who take care of them. The script is by Ernest Kinoy. The cast includes Wendell Holmes, Ralph Bell and many more. Writer: Robert Heinlein
X Minus One was a science fiction radio series on NBC that aired April 1955 through January 1958. The show featured stories written by some of the big names in 1950’s science fiction like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and Issac Asimov.
Fri. Show Prep – Monkey Attack Edition
- The most awesome story of the week: A pet monkey escaped from his cage and went crazy, foring the family to barricade itself to hide from the primate. When the smoke cleared the monkey had scratched the son and tore the ear of the family dog.
- South Carolina Senate candidate may not have his own website, or the ability to beat Jim DeMint in a game of Trivial Pursuit… but now he does have his very own music video.
- Shirleygate Update: Former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod says that she’s going to pass on the new job that she’s been offered.
- Meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, Andrew Breitbart says that he’s the victim of a manufactured controversy.
- Mel Gibson may be the most angry man in the world not named Bryan Biggs, but he may not be the one who was doing illegal things. Police are said to be investigating Mel’s ex for extortion. Emails and texts suggest that she was holding the tapes over his head and only released them when he didn’t pay up.
- Truth in advertising: 99 Cents Only stores are being sued from raising their prices to a full dollar. I’m reminded of when Homer Simpson sued The Frying Dutchman… “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, does this look like a man who had all he could eat?”
- It’s official. Cheerleading is NOT a sport.
- The real reason the GOP did not support the extension of unemployment benefits? Because they are “cruel,” according to Florida moonbat Alan Grayson.
Bill Murray Goes Dumpster Diving
Huge Cubs fan and comedian Bill Murray was on “The Late Show with David Letterman” Wednesday night showing off the latest craze in New York: Dumpster pools. Apparently he’s not taking the news of Lou Piniella’s retirement very well.
“Lou Piniella!!!”
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