Ralph Nader

I have no particular love for any of the candidates. Each one has a certain issue or two (minimally) that I disagree with. In McCain’s case, he is a lying shift changer totally devoid of truth, hence no way I could vote for him in any circumstance (I’d even vote for Hillary before him).

Even though I like the hype and “feel goodness” of Mr Obama’s words, I have not truly trusted him because he is a part of that Dem Party. The simple fact is that I don’t trust them any more than I do the ReTHUGs. Pelosi and Reid have both shown via their inability to carry forward on the ‘06 mandate that the leadership simply are untrustworthy.

The Blue-Dogs are THUG-lites and continue to STOP any real attempt at accountability and for what it is worth, I hope they all lose their seats soon for their complicity in harboring these criminals. The THUGS are set to lose many seats, so they are likely to be a non-entity, soon.

So, I have been researching alternative parties, specifically someone “independnet”, to see how closely they relate to my goals for this country. There are several folks out there that speak to me, but the more I read and listen to Ralph Nader, the more I like and respect him. He is saying what I bitch about, almost to a “T”.

I, for one, will not be fooled by the Dem rhetoric that Nader causes lost elections. I refuse to be cornered by these people when a simple cursory view of history proves that this system was never meant to be controlled by two parties, as has happened.

Therefore, I am looking elsewhere, until one the “Major Party Candidates” can speak for the people and not their Big Money/Big Military controllers. I almost wish Obama was the guy, but money will control him, as well. He knows what needs to be said and done, hinting at some of the fringe issues (Executive Order review), but he is either too frightened or “bought” to tell the whole truth and push for justice and full accountability for the crimes conducted.

Visit Mr Nader’s site (VoteNader.org) and see if he speaks to your desire for this country and let me know.

The Onion Movie

B’Man: Any regular visitor knows that I enjoy The Onion (America’s Finest News Source) and present a lot of their content. That site is hilarious (with Doyle Redland’s Onion Radio News being one of my personal favorites), so when I was approached to add a special post about the new movie coming up, I could not turn it down. The Onion Movie DVD is set for release on June 3.

View the press release (for formality):

ONLY ONE NEWS ORGANIZATION
HAS THE GUTS TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS

THE ONION MOVIE

America’s Finest News Source Tackles All The Issues
On Unrated DVD June 3rd From Fox Home Entertainment

CENTURY CITY, Calif. – One of the world’s most popular news weeklies takes its crucial stories, essential interviews, fundamental concerns and hard-hitting movie previews to the screen when The Onion Movie makes its debut on unrated DVD June 3rd from Fox Home Entertainment. From the sharp minds of Robert Siegel and Todd Hanson, long-time editors and writers for The Onion newspaper and website, The Onion Movie presents a hard look at world events, cultural fads and curious human behavior, reporting on topics that most news programs wouldn’t dare touch. The movie features award winning anchor Norm Archer as he presents some of the most recent controversial news stories including American Automobile’s recall of all cars featuring neck-belts and legislation by Congress that limits smoking within U.S. borders to a single 10×10 room in Des Moines. Additionally, The Onion’s own Kip Kendall sits down for an exclusive interview with pop sensation Melissa Cherry to discuss her new album “Come With Me” and the accusations that her songs have a sexually explicit message. Lastly, The Onion Movie features the world premiere trailer of the explosive action-packed thriller Cockpuncher starring a martial arts superstar whose identity must remain a mystery. With bonus features including deleted scenes and outtakes, The Onion Movie DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $26.98 U.S. / $37.98 Canada. Prebook is May 7.

DVD Special Features:
The Onion Movie DVD is presented in widescreen format (1.85:1 ratio) with English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround and English, Spanish and French subtitles. Additionally, the disc includes the following bonus content:
· Deleted scenes
· Outtakes

Synopsis
This just in…The Onion invades DVD! Based on the wildly popular satirical newspaper hailed by The New Yorker as “the funniest publication in the United States,” The Onion Movie brings you uncensored, uninhibited, UNRATED news and views from around the world. And in a stunning development, when Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is asked to compromise his journalistic integrity to please a new corporate sponsor, he doesn’t just get mad, he gets…angry. Taking aim at pop stars, party games, prisoners and peace talks, The Onion Movie delivers hard-hitting headlines—and side-splitting laughs!

A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company.

You don’t have the balls to check out The Onion Movie Blog

If you like to punch cocks, they even have a game for you.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: (Young) Hillary Clinton

She apparently never grew up…

Flying Airplanes

9/11 Conspiracies and all the different organizations and websites centered around the 9/11 attacks can drive a person crazy with the detail that needs to be digested even to form a minor opinion on whether or not our government (some crazy group within that government, anyway) was complicit, if not the actual perpetrators. There are scientists, physicists and engineers (structural, demolitions, and many other areas of expertise) who disown the proposed “facts” as misleading or false. There are firemen, policemen and everyday citizens who heard and witnessed strange phenomena like extra explosions, etc that don’t add up to the findings in the 9/11 Commission Report.

As a matter of fact, the report itself is so ineffectual and lacking that it is deserving of another try through independent means. Luckily for the perpetrators, all the evidence was quickly hauled away without review and we have no evidence to examine except video shots, etc. (Can you imagine even a car wreck where such an examination were not conducted, yet the worst travesty ever perpetrated on America was not truly investigated?)

One of the most telling examples is all the published interviews with the flight instructors of the “terrorists” before they “hijacked” the planes. Basically, these “terrorist pilots” could barely fly single engine “learner” aircraft. In some cases the instructors were scared to death to even taxi, much less fly with these “pilots”.

Now a bit about old BuelahMan. I actually used to fly small planes with my adoptive dad. He was a pilot for many years and had several of these overwing planes before purchasing a Cherokee Lance (multi-passenger underwing, single engine plane… that ultimately took his and my 5 yo brother’s life in a crash at our local airport). I was actually set to make that flight with a buddy, but we decided not to at the very last minute. This crash is the reason I never pursued flying again.

Anyway, I spent a few summers flying often with him, taking the controls while flying and as the summer progressed, learned how to take off and land the plane. Now since I never flew a big jet, I can only compare an airline pilot’s testimony to my small plane experience, but from what I understand these jets are one hell-uv-a lot harder to navigate and control than a small Cessna (makes sense to me, as well).

A Cessna can do some fairly audacious manuevers, while a behemoth like a 737 cannot.

On one of my attempted landings we had some side winds (not much, but enough to cause the small plane to lurch and move sideways as we approached). It scared the hell out of me and I told my dad to take the controls (he did and brought us down as if there were no wind whatsoever). However, I have never forgotten that experience because it showed me how difficult it is to keep even a small aircraft on line.

Can you imagine trying this with a huge jet and little more experience than I had?

Now, one thing that is never talked about is the auto-pilot functionality of these jets and the fact that we have aircraft that are totally capable to be flown remotely (yes, even jets).

My point is that I cannot believe that these “pilots” who could barely fly small aircraft could not possible have done what was done. Some of the planes’ maneuvers were so radical that it is suggested that they could not have done it. I agree.

So, how did these piss-poor pilots fly these jets into buildings with such accuracy?

In my mind, they didn’t.

They Couldn’t.