Deathly Hallows - Done
I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. Now my wife and I can finally talk about it. She finished the book in about 12 hours. Good book, I did like it, but the Half Blood Prince is still my favorite. Congrats to JK on what is now the fastest selling book ever.
links for 2007-07-19
Keep your pants on! Vt. town bans nudity
Small Vermont town bans public nudity.
It took an elderly man wearing only a fanny pack and wandering through the center of town last week for the Select Board to decide it had seen enough.
Couldn’t they just say, you can’t be nude if you’re over the age of 60?
links for 2007-07-18
links for 2007-07-17
Beckhams - Is This News?
The Beckhams arrive in LA. I guess this is big news for alot of people. I couldn’t give a rats ass.
Stick a fork in John McCain
The Republican nomination for the ‘08 presidential race was John McCain’s to loose, and loose it he has. With the dramatic announcement today of his two campaign aides leaving and least weeks disappointing fundraising numbers, stick a fork in McCain because he’s done. This should go down as one of the biggest campaign flameouts of all time.
I had one thought McCain a candidate I might support, but than he completely lost his mind. Strongly supporting a president even republicans can’t deal with anymore and that “bomb Iran” speech. The immigration bill support cemented his fate. John McCain is the living, breathing definition of out-of-touch. The only one more myopic than McCain is President Bush. With McCain out, it makes it even easier for Fred Thomson to waltz in and take it for himself.
New Crowded House
Oh my, there’s a new Crowded House album out and it’s great! Sometimes when bands of old come back for another try at past glory the results are less than spectacular. Not the cases here; Crowded House sound as good as ever.
Weight=206 : Sugar=107
I shouldn’t be so long between fatblog updates. I will try to keep to a more weekly update schedule. Well as you can see I haven’t budged at all on the weight. I am just where I was two weeks ago. On the sugar front, however, I am doing fantastic. I am supposed to keep below 120 and I’m easily within that target.
My challenge remains weight. I have not hit the exercise as much as I need, although I get two very good workouts every week with my karate training. Clearly I need more. The diet is not half bad, but I have never had a huge problem there. My biggest diet problem continues to be breakfast. It’s just so damm easy to get an Egg McMuffin on the way to work and yes I eat the hash brown.
I have the typical diabetic round belly and I hate it. Any particular workout tips for this would be greatly appreciated. As usual, I just have to flat out work harder.
Cindy Sheehan vs. Nancy Pelosi
Just when you thought you couldn’t get any more liberal than congresswomen Nancy Peloci; along comes Cindy Sheeman. The anti-war activist who lost her son in Iraq wants Pelosi to start impeachment proceedings against President Bush in two weeks or she threatens to run for her seat in congress.
First things first. I Feel for Mrs. Sheehan. She lost her son in a crappy war that Bush has royally screwed up. Liberals are desparate to impeach someone mostly because they’re still pissed about what happend to Bill Clinton and want revenge. Bush is an idiot and has messed up most of his second term, but he hasn’t done anything that would warrant impeachment. Further, impeaching Bush isn’t going to take him out of office nor change his mind about the war. It will not bring home any troops any faster. It’ s an impractical lashing out by a frustrated group of people. I would rather congress spend it’s time figuring out how they can change of course of the war in a practical and sane way. It’s just not as easy as some people think.
Shehan has no chance to overtake Pelosi. Pelosi has the support of the party, she has experience, and for better or for worse, she hasn’t completely screwed anything up yet. Putting a wild eyed maverick with a single purpose in office is a very very bad idea. San Fran voters are a bunch of nut jobs to be sure, but I don’t think they’re that foolish. Cindy Sheehan looks more like a crazy lunatic with her wild publicity stunts than a serious thoughtful person with something interesting and useful to say.