Felize Monday-dahd! 3/15/10

Happy Monday!

Had an uneventful weekend. Congratulations to the Blue Devils for winning the ACC.
Big kudos to Winthrop and Wofford Universities for making "the dance" into the 64 team NCAA tournament.

My Tarheels made the "Not Invited Tournament" and will face WM & Mary Tuesday.

here are some quick hits I saw on the ol interweb this morning.

Actor Peter Graves has died of natural causes at the age of 83.

The letters A, C, O, R and N are coming off office doors from New York to California. Business cards are being reprinted. New signs with new names are popping up in front of offices. Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal. One of the latest groups to adopt a new name is ACORN Housing, long one of the best-funded affiliates. Now, the group is calling itself the Affordable Housing Centers of America. Others changing their names include what were among the largest affiliates: California ACORN is now Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, and New York ACORN has become New York Communities for Change. More are expected to follow suit.

Speaking of ACRON, a Dutch political party formed by self-described pedophiles has voted to disband itself after failing for the second time to participate in national elections in June. The group, which sought to lower the age of sexual consent to 12, says it could not get the 600 signatures necessary to win a place on the ballot in a country of 16.5 million. It would need 60,000 votes to win a seat in the 150-member Dutch parliament.

South Park’s 14th season begins this Wednesday night at 10pm ET. It concerns “Sexual Addiction” and features a parody of Tiger Woods.

Here’s your weekend box office estimates per Variety.com

1. Alice In Wonderland $62,000,000
2. Green Zone $14,534,520
3. She's Out Of My League $9,600,000
4. Remember Me $8,281,000
5. Shutter Island $8,140,000
6. Our Family Wedding $7,600,000
7. Avatar $6,600,000
8. Brooklyn's Finest $4,290,000
9. Cop Out $4,230,000
10. Crazies, The $3,650,000

Thursday September 10th 2009

This isn't just some right winged FOX News kinda thing. This isn't a Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck thing. This really isn't an anti Barack Obama thing. Remember the ACORN organization from the election last year? Check out THESE videos where ACORN officials out of Baltimore are encouraging and instructing someone (undercover) how to not only cheat on their taxes (which many people do but shouldn't), but how to GET AWAY WITH IMPORTING UNDER AGE CHILDREN FOR PROSTITUTION.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTnizEnC1U
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYU9PamIZk

ACORN is a shady organization at best. Much like some of the banking and financial organizations both Republicans and Democrats are in bed with, they were influential in getting Obama elected. Which is normally a good thing in my opinion, I believe not ENOUGH people vote nowadays. Unfortunately some of those who vote are truly clueless (that's another blog.

Take Obama's speech to the kids. I saw nothing wrong with it after reading the text. Look at other speeches to school kids from presidents back from the 40's. Obama was criticised for no reason in my opinion. It's a shame because it detracts from any legitimate concerns and issues about his policies and such.

This is a good example of how things are perceived in today's society. Just because Beck or Limbaugh or Fox News broadcasts the ACORN incident (and the like), it's considered racist hatred and biased right wing nonsense. Either Bush or Obama could come up with a cure for cancer and SOMEONE will always be there to discredit their accomplishments or to report 'ulterior' motives. There is such a distrust nowadays. And rightly so, in my opinion. It healthy to question authority to a point in my opinion, but not to the point of McCarthyism.

What are we gonna do as a nation- just sit by and hope things change on their own?