Alpha Male

We conservatives like to think we are alpha males (the ones that are male at least).  It is interesting that the new "Idol" is what we use to call "Wimpy"or girly.  Of course, we are all combinations of many types.  The above video gave me something to think about, hopefully, it is interesting to you!  Many of the references are to shows that are no longer on, so the younger genration might not get them.

The alpha male was needed when the country was first started since it was wilderness and needed taming.  We tend to think that we don't need that type any more, maybe that is why things are going to H*** in a handbasket!

Unsat End

We have watched every episode of the TV series CHUCK.  We have DVD's of the seasons.  It was one of my favorite (if not the favorite) TV show.

But the final episode left a lot to be desired.  We wanted Chuck and Sarah to be happy and maybe pregnant. Instead, Sarah has forgotten her life with Chuck.

The series had extremely good characters like Morgan (Chuck's best friend), John Casey (played by Adam Baldwin), Ellie (Chuck's sister), Devon (Ellie's husband, Captain Awesome) and Alex (Casey's daughter).  We cared about them (as much as one can care about TV characters).

To end the series the way they did was just UNSAT!

It seems that there are fewer and fewer TV shows worth watching every year.  It is sad to lose Chuck that way.

Spend more Save more

I was watching the TV & numerous Black Friday, Brown Saturday, Gray Sunday, Cyber Monday sales where on. The one which to me is the most ridiculous is the "Buy More Save More" ads. The best way to save more is to buy nothing!

P.O. & his allies believe since the first stimulus bill failed; we need another one! This is the Buy more save more in government. If spending money did not work then they believe spending more is the solution. Most people who are in their right minds don't truly believe continuing doing something that doesn't work more will work!

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Bruce Feirstein

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

insanity (n) the state of being seriously mentally ill; madness • extreme foolishness or irrationality
ORIGIN late 16th cent. : from Latin insanitas, from insanus (see insane )

HDTV

We actually bought a HDTV, it is a Panasonic Plasma TV. After much moaning and groaning, thinking and rethinking, contemplating and looking at various TV's; we bought it; we also got a "free" Blu-Ray player with it.

This purchase was really pretty frivolous. Our old 27" CRT TV worked OK & we don't really watch that much TV anyhow. But we "deserve" (in the same sense that the people that lawyers get money for their pain or injuries do) to pamper ourselves a little; as my kids would tell you, I am cheap & did not spend more than we made for all the years they were with us. We did give them money for most of college but there were few frills when they were growing up.

“All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful” Benjamin Franklin

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” Lord Byron {Maybe someone should tell P.O.}

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.” Warren Buffett

“I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!” Jack Handy

HDTV (abbreviation) high-definition television, using more lines per frame to give a sharper image than a conventional television

A-Team

There was a TV program called the A-Team where they are ex-military vietnam veterans who were unjustly convicted of a crime & then escaped to become Soldiers of Fortune in L.A.. They usually help people who are being harassed by badies. Almost every episode they are captured by the badies who put them in a garage or other facility that has all sorts of welding equipment, & odds and ends that can be made into weapons. They then turn the tables on the badies & save their good guy clients.

This show is an example of the badies who always seem to put off killing the good guys when they have the drop on them. You would think that they would learn & just kill the good guys; but no they wait & the good guys win. Goldfinger has it right when 007 is strapped to a table with a laser cutting toward the private parts of 007; when 007 asks "Do you expect me to talk?" Goldfinger replies ,"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!" Of course, he doesn't kill 007 but at least he had the right idea!

We have a channel "MeTV" which shows old time shows like the A-Team. They are enjoyable without the sex that seems to be required in modern shows. So if you need a good guy winning fix; turn on the A-Team & rest your rational mind!

I did not crash this plane! I simply landed it without the customary accompaniment of forward thrust or lift. Murdock


Use your imagination! Or you can borrow mine. Murdock


Aw, Hannibal, is this one of your plans supposed to go down 1, 2, 3? You always forget 4, 5, and 6. BA


Shut up, fool! BA


Don't ya love it! No matter how smart they think they are, they always screw up somehow! Hannibal


I love it when a plan comes together! Hannibal


I lie, I cheat, I steal and I just don't get any respect. Face


The Jazz is kinda like nature's way of sticking your finger in a light socket. Our problem is, Hannibal likes it. Face


adventure (n) an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity • daring and exciting activity calling for enterprise and enthusiasm
ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French aventure (noun), aventurer (verb), based on Latin adventurus ‘about to happen,’ from advenire ‘arrive.’

"… of your dreams"

When I listen to the radio or watch TV, I often hear that something is "of your dreams". Yet it is almost never something that I dream about. The car of your dreams : I can't ever remember dreaming of a car; ditto for house or TV or vacation.

Most of my dreams are action dreams; usually I am a hero or a hero sidekick where we defeat the evil forces of evil. I remember dreaming about our youngest son after he died; often asking him wasn't he dead & he assuring me that he wasn't; a dream that often lasted shortly after I woke.

But I guess I am not the audience that the commercials are for.

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” James Dean

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Napoleon Hill

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into reality.” Henry David Thoreau

Acts 2:17
AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,' God says,
'THAT I WILL POUR FORTH OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND;
AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY,
AND YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS,
AND YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS

dream (n) a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep • [in sing. ] a state of mind in which someone is or seems to be unaware of their immediate surroundings
• a cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal
(v)1 experience dreams during sleep • indulge in daydreams or fantasies, typically about something greatly desired
2 [with negative ] contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case
ORIGIN Middle English : of Germanic origin, related to Dutch droom and German Traum, and probably also to Old English drēam [joy, music.]

Comedy

We used to watch numerous comedies on TV.  Some great shows like Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Various Newhart shows, the Cosby shows.  But now we do not watch any "comedy" shows.  I think that they are just stupid, the men are all idiots, the women are smart & sexy, the children are disrespectful.

I think it started with The Simpsons and shows like Married with Children that showed completely unreal families.  I guess I am just an old-fogey.

The problem is the average person isn’t tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and it’s not in the movies they watch, and it’s not in the few books that they buy, they don’t get it. Jack Canfield 

I can't think of one person who is on TV who isn't vain. It's the nature of the beast. If you are on TV then you have a vanity, for sure. Just admit it! Why not?  Simon Cowell

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks. Jon Stewart

"My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."  Peter De Vries

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."  Groucho Marx

television (n) 1 a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.
• the activity, profession, or medium of broadcasting on television 2 (also television set) a box-shaped device that receives television signals and reproduces them on a screen.
ORIGIN early 20th cent. : from tele- [at a distance] + vision

NBC

The most liberal TV network is NBC.  They ruined (to me) Boston Legal which was good for the first few years; but then they started shifting the cases to (what I consider)  liberal causes like, a soldier who wanted to be outwardly gay & not ask not tell not.  The conservative on the show was the crazy Denny Crane, etc..

So I was watching the show "Life" on VHS tape (we tend to record shows because my wife has numerous activities at night or we don't to stay up late to watch it); when the bad guy twice said "it was supposed to last only 6 weeks" (referring to the Iraq war).  Probably I am too sensitive to liberal propaganda, but this was on NBC.

As I have said I am conservative & try to not support liberal enterprises.

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” Winston Churchill

“Some of you may remember that in my early days, I was sort of a bleeding heart liberal. Then I became a man and put away childish ways.” Ronald Reagan

“One difference between a liberal and a pickpocket is that if you demand your money back from a pickpocket, he won't question your motives”

liberal (adj) 1 open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values • favorable to or respectful of individual rights and freedoms • (in a political context) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform 2 [ attrib. ] (of education) concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training. 3 (esp. of an interpretation of a law) broadly construed or understood; not strictly literal or exact

[ editorial comment - def 1) seems to be by the wayside; P.O. not for individual rights but the rights of the liberal]

TV

I watch a lot of TV.  On Monday we watch Chuck, Tuesday: House & Eli Stone, Wednesday: Bones, one of us Private Practice other Life, Thursday: Grey's Anatomy  & I watch The Unit on line.  I like the fact that most of the major networks have show on line, if we miss one we can catch it there.  We often record the shows to watch later since it seems that one or the other of us is out.

My favorite shows are mainly old shows like Scarecrow & Mrs King, The Pretender, Remington Steele, Gilmore Girls, MacGyver,  Newhart, & Due South.  A perfect show would have some sexual tension between the male & female leads (not consummated), humor, quirky minor characters, & action.

Interesting the only show that has all of them is Chuck.  Usually the shows that I like are not that popular and are cancelled.  I don't like reality shows in general.  I can not understand why anyone would care who a bachelor would pick out of a bunch of gold digger girls or who wants to watch anyone lose weight.

REALITY (n)The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum (The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce)