Monthly Archives: November 2009

Las Vegas club agrees to halt promotion featuring live dancers on truck – Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 | 5:48 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun

So long stripper truck, we hardly knew ya.

Look, I’m pretty much a local here. I don’t go to the Strip much, if at all unless folks come to visit or we get really cheap show tickets.

And I definitely don’t drag my kid down there at midnight. But apparently the “moral values” dipshits think they need to shut down something that is making a local business some money. So, alas, the stripper truck is no more.

I hate it when uptight nitwits ruin a good marketing venture. I had no need to see the truck, so it didn’t bother me. No one was actually getting naked in it. The Strip is covered in ads for burlesque shows and clubs and whatnot that have scantily clad females on it. Apparently those are fine to the so-called Christians or whatever they think they are.

Look, it’s Vegas. The whorehouses are over an hour away. Stripping is legal, and I don’t want to know what goes on in the all-night massage parlors and 24-hour acupuncture clinics. If you don’t like what Vegas means to the rest of the planet, move back to Provo or Chico or Alpine, TX for all I care. But quit voting for a guy who cheats with his best friend’s wife and then get all irate over a girl in lingerie in the back of a truck.

Hypocrites.

In Sports, Red Is Winning Color, Study Says

Apparently you can trend success by uniform color. Granted, this didn’t work so well for the Phillies this year, but their loss had something to do with Blue blowing calls that got the Yankees to the Series more than anything else.

In most instances however, wearing red is usually the color of success for sports teams.

I found this blog entry that gives more examples of this (you’ll have to go halfway down the page):

  • Stanley Cup Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 4 of the 8 (Detroit Red Wings-2 times, New Jersey Devils, and Carolina Hurricanes)
  • World Series Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 6 of the 8 (Arizona DiamondBacks, Anaheim Angels, Boston Red Sox-2 times, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Philadelphia Phillies)
  • Super Bowl Champions (2000-2008): teams that wore RED (or have traces of RED) won 4 of the 8 Super Bowls (New England Patriots 2002/2004-2005 and NY Giants 2008)
  • NBA Champions:(2000-2008 teams that wore RED only won 2 of the 8 NBA Finals (Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat). However, keep in mind that RED was a dominant color in the 90’s with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls
  • English Premiere League (English Soccer) (2000-2008): teams that wore RED won 7 of the 8 titles (Manchester United 5 times, Arsenal 2 times)

Meep!

I found this funny story today:

If you’re a Muppet lab assistant or a cartoon bird pursued by a hapless coyote, you are no longer welcome at Danvers High School in Massachusetts. Or, at least, you’d better keep your mouth shut if you visit, because the school’s principal seems to think that “meep” is murder. Or something like that.wired.com, GeekDad Parents, Kids and the Stuff We Obsess About, Nov 2009

You should read the whole article. Not to mention the ABC article on the subject.

Think Progress » Will the RNC apologize for racist Facebook photo?

Republicans are really getting onboard this newfangled Facebook thingy. Enough so that they’ve learned to upload funny photos. Well, funny to them anyway.

The GOP has tried to distance themselves from this, but they haven’t denounced it. This, as usual, is the Republican Party trying to shush the sheet wearing crowd behind the curtain as opposed to revealing all the evil in their ranks and asking them to leave. I mean, hell, you are already losing elections, why not try to do the right thing for the first time since 1863?

Obama’s foreign policy report card – Salon.com

Subtitled: “You’d never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan”

Read this and feel better about having an adult in charge of this country. There are WAY too many Rethug talking heads screaming that the President isn’t running headlong into throwing soldiers into harm’s way on just a gut feeling.

I normally don’t wish too much ill on even cretins, but I hope any kids those Republicans have in service get a mild case of bullet in the leg for all their gung-ho idiot bullshit.

Oh wait, Republicans don’t serve in the military, they just pretend to do it and cheer from the sidelines. I don’t mind Obama actually thinking through a problem that may require American soldiers to die. And I don’t mind him finding ways to not resolve every problem with conflict.

Wood: Not the renewable energy some had in mind – Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 | 2 a.m. – Las Vegas Sun

Here in Nevada we aren’t quite onboard the renewable energy thing yet. I mean, today is the first cloudy day we’ve had in quite awhile. We get A LOT of sun here. We also get a fair amount of wind. Up north there are quite a bit of geothermal resources which, admittedly, are getting somewhat used.

So, we’ve got some mandates to get our grid on more renewables. Is there a new solar array in the hojillion square miles of unused government land out there? No. How about vast farms of wind turbines? Not so much.

No, our energy company’s solution to global warming is to…wait for it…mix wood chips with the coal.

Yeah! Problem solved. Oh wait, one thing: we live in a FREAKING DESERT! We don’t HAVE quick growing forests on the edge of town to exploit. We barely have any trees as it is.

Christ, they MUST be Republicans over there at NV Energy. Idiiots.

Carrie Prejean Abruptly Leaves Larry King Interview – Yahoo! TV Blog

Republicans are idiots. When they aren’t electing – or trying to elect – failed fighter pilots, they are choosing cheerleaders and failed pageant morons as their “leaders”.

Case in point. Hot on the heels of her revelation of having a porn tape, bigoted ex-Miss California Carrie Prejean can’t handle a question by Larry King.

Larry is like, what?, 80? What possible thing could he say or do to offend anyone beyond trying to make you the next ex-Mrs. Larry King?

Anyway, enjoy the stupidity.