Baby boomer man humorously looking at mid-life, retirement, and memories.
We drove by a sign today marking a trail as part of the Appalachian Trail.
Governor Mark Sanford.
I have a picture, but forgot the cable needed to download.
Use your imagination of how I would pose next to a sign marking the Appalachian Trail.
We are passing through NC on our way to pay respects to the home of Miss South Carolina:
Despite her doing well on Amazing Race and her pride in having to use a map, she still is a ditz.
This is a picture of Craig Harrison.
He is a British corporal of horse.
He killed a guy from 8,120 feet away.
On purpose.
Now I ask you Internet.
What the hell is a “British corporal of horse?”
And setting that aside for a moment… can a man-held weapon really shoot 8,120 feet?
“The first round hit a machine-gunner in the stomach and killed him outright,”
“The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too,”
Really? Would the weapon look something like this? Except the barrel would have to be bent upward to account for gravity and physics and all that stuff I never learned?
The most high-powered weapon I have fired is a .22 rifle at rats around the corncrib about 15 feet away.
No shotguns. No pistols.
I need to add that to my to-do list.
Shoot weapon.
Even better: Shoot bazooka.
Because NBC has done so well with the spawn of Tim Russert, Luke, and the offspring of Dubya, Jenna Bush, CBS has snagged Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown’s 21-year-old daughter Ayla Brown. She has graduated from American Idol, but has yet to earn a college degree, to be a correspondent for the CBS Early Show.
From American Idol to CBS Morning News
Ayla Brown is still a student at Boston College and from her qualifications, will serve CBS News in a most capable fashion:
… she has sung “The Star-Spangled Banner” at dozens of events. The most notable venue at which she has performed the anthem was the 33rd annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on the Esplanade alongside Boston’s Charles River on July 4, 2006. The performance garnered national attention and was watched by hundreds of thousands both in attendance and on television.
CBS says they have the next Katie Couric in Ayla Brown…
“You can’t create the next Katie Couric,” executive producer David Friedman tells AP. “You just have to find talent that you think can develop into something.”
Tell me again that network news isn’t entertaining?
Buckets of rain fell on Nashville and central Tennessee for hours and hours and hours over the weekend.
The “news” bloggers are freaking out that this isn’t getting the same national news coverage as the oil volcano or the flubbed up terrorist attack in Manhattan.
It is a disaster for NashVegas for sure and will have tremendous impact on a million or so people. But I live about 70 miles away and it has absolutely NO impact on my life. Ergo: not a national news story.
As a matter of fact, we will be going to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center tonight. TPAC is just a few blocks away from where the picture was taken.
Performances of “A Chorus Line” at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center will be presented as originally scheduled, May 4-9.
There is a meme developing about how NashVegas was ignored by the national media.
In one of the most shamefully underreported stories so far, the fatal flooding in Nashville, Tennessee, continues to get worse as the river approaches its crest. The entirety of downtown Nashville had to be evacuated, including 1500 people from the Opryland Hotel.
Shamefully? Overstate much? BTW: Opryland Hotel is not even close to downtown, it’s at least 15 miles away. (Pre-flood, post-flood the parkway may be closed.)
The flood in Nashville and central Tennessee just isn’t as important on the national scene. Shameful? Puh-leeze.
One blogger claimed the best source of information is the Nashvillest… which is just a couple of folks aggregating what other main stream (har) media have published/broadcasted. It’s a local story and the local media outlets are going overboard (har) to cover the flood.
We’re looking at some of the worst flooding in decades, the interstates are closed, people’s houses are flooding, some cows are stranded, and it’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.
Cows. We have stranded cows. (Made the front page of Nashvillest.) The perceived lack of national media coverage was explained this way by a blogger…
Part of the lack of national response for Nashville may come from the lag between the real time web and when traditional media figures out there’s a story.
“Traditional media” had this story from the first flooding. The NashVegas Tee Vee station we get here in Smallburg was wall-to-wall even though their newsroom was flooding and equipment was being moved to higher ground.
Am I affected by oil volcano? Yes, gas prices have already jumped by 15 cents a gallon. Taxpayers will be shelling out to clean up the BP oil volcano. Commodities that move up and down the Mississippi river will be curtailed, thus causing shortages and higher prices.
Does Firecracker Boy in Manhattan affect me? Probably not as much – yet. But the next time we fly anyplace, I expect to see increased security.
Flooding NashVegas is a local story. And the bloggers and tweeters are just regurgitating what the television stations and newspapers are reporting.
UPDATE: Adding to the insult – Tornado Penis aimed at NashVegas is getting lots of attention from web but not mainstream media.
UPDATE 2: 18 inch dicks would help NashVegas hit the national media too…
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