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Louie

                                                               

  I am a fan of “Louie.”  It took me a little bit to get the hang on the show.  Louis C.K. does a hell of a job as a writer, producer and writer.  I think this is season two now.  I think I have seen all of the shows and am up to date.
 
 

“Louie is an American comedy television series on the FX network that began airing in 2010. It is written, directed, edited and produced by the show's creator, stand-up comedian Louis C.K., who stars as a fictionalized version of himself, a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City. The show has a loose format atypical for television comedy series, consisting of largely unconnected storylines and segments (described as "extended vignettes") that revolve around Louie's life, punctuated by live stand-up performances.

The first season of Louie was broadcast in 2010, and the second season in 2011. The show has met with critical acclaim and was included in various 2010 top-ten lists.

C.K. was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series as well as Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. C.K. announced on August 6th, 2011, via his Twitter account that the series had been picked up for a third season. The third season is due to begin airing from June 28, 2012…”

 

  “…C.K. accepted the modest offer of $200,000 (covering his own fee as well as production costs) to do a pilot with FX over prospective production deals with larger networks because they allowed him full executive control of the show. The show is shot on a Red camera setup, and C.K. edits many of the episodes on his personal laptop. In addition to starring, Louie serves as the series' sole writer and director, an unusual distinction in television production…”

3D Video

  I been thinking about getting a 3D camera.  I do not think people are real interested in 3D but I think it would be fun to play with and see what I could do.
  You can upload and view 3D videos to YouTube.

  I have looked at some 3D videos on YouTube and they are pretty dull.  So I was wondering what sort of thing could you do in 3D that would be interesting.

 

 

  But my eyes and head hurt after just a minute or two of trying to watch anything in 3D.
How about you?

County officials critical of storm chasers on roads

  The following is a reprint from the Salina Journal (Kansas).  I think it is important to get this information out and for people to start thinking about this issue.
  It is just going to get worst. 
  I am not sure what the answer is to the problem of the storm chasers.
 

  Some of them need to be out on the roads.  The NWS people.  Sky/Warn people.
None of them have the right to speed.  They should be ticketed for speeding.
If they are speeding and failing to pull over for police, fire and EMS then they should be arrested and when they go to court the judge should have the ability to take their cars and their equipment (radios, cameras, computers).
  You know my feelings about the news media… If they are news media people the police should have the right to just force them off the road and shoot them in heads and leave them along the road as road kill.
  If I was the driver of a fire truck and they refused to pull over I would be tempted to give them a little bump and move them off the road. 

 

 

“4/16/2012

By TIM UNRUH

Salina Journal

Chancy Smith likes footage and photos of tornadoes and other weather disasters, but the pursuit of them Saturday night left him frazzled.

A high probably for tornadoes in north-central Kansas brought a convoy of storm chasers to the area.

During some perilous moments, Smith, director of Dickinson County Emergency Management, said the chasers got in the way of protecting the public.

"It was like a funeral procession, bumper to bumper," he said. "It was horrible."

Motoring down gravel roads north of Solomon while a tornado was bearing down on farmsteads, Smith said there were small "beater cars" with license tags from out of county and other states, that would not yield to emergency vehicles.

"We were going on Solomon Road with lights and sirens, and they wouldn't get over," he said. "Some were driving 60 or 70 mph, looking for videos or photos, and they didn't even notice us."

Some were locals out to gawk at the storm, Smith said, but most of the traffic snarl from an estimated 350 vehicles, was thanks to storm chasers.

"Some of them help communities by calling in, but they don't help us," he said.

Near a natural gas compressor station that was damaged by a tornado on Kansas Highway 18 in Ottawa County, the chasers put themselves in possible danger where power poles were snapped.

"Those morons were driving over power lines," Smith said. "I was worried that we would have to do rescues."

He was racing to a house that was reportedly destroyed at K-18 and Solomon Road but was delayed by chasers taking their half out of the middle of the road.

"We were trying to get there to render assistance," Smith said. "Some of those cars got stuck in the mud."

Once he arrived and learned the report was unfounded, he said storm chasers pulled onto private property and tore up muddy driveways.

Exuberance of some may have heightened because some storms hit during daylight hours.

"It was a photogenic tornado," Smith said. "People saw it and felt safe. They were just utterly idiotic."

Others who worked the weekend storms understand Smith's frustrations.

Keith Haberer doesn't point to many issues with storm chasers since joining the storm spotting business in 1997, but the director of emergency management in Russell and Ellsworth counties can relate to Smith's experiences.

"They do tend to clog up roads and highways, especially when emergency crews are trying to get through," Haberer said. "On the other hand, they are sometimes the first to spot tornadoes and help us get warnings out sooner."

Storm chasers provide a lot of valuable information, said Suzanne Fortin, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service Wichita office. But she acknowledged a down side Sunday while surveying storm damage.

"(Storm chasers) do help us with reports, but they also can be problematic with emergency management," Fortin said. "Some of them aren't aware that they can be more of a hindrance than a help."

One way to force storm chasers to behave might be to ticket them, Smith, but they usually are noticed when emergency workers have higher priorities.

"I think they just know we don't have time to deal with them," he said. "We couldn't have a response Saturday with that many of them on the road. It was just crazy."

-- Reporter Tim Unruh can be reached at 822-1419 or by email at tunruh@salina.com.”

A Dramatic Surprise on a Quiet Square

“Published on Apr 11, 2012 by turnerbenelux

To launch the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium we placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text "Push to add drama" invited people to use the button. And then we waited... Discover here what happened or visit http://www.tnt-tv.be for more info.”

Move over Nancy Grace and make room for Angela Corey

  I am 71 years old and there is one thing I know, after all these years, and that is bull shit.   I just saw a master at bull shit.  It was prosecutor Angela Corey.

“(CNN) -- Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and is in custody, a special prosecutor announced Wednesday.

Zimmerman, 28, was arrested on a warrant and was in the custody of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, his new attorney, Mark O'Mara, told CNN legal analyst Mark NeJame.

What happens next

The charges were announced in Jacksonville by prosecutor Angela Corey, who has said her job was "to find out the full truth" about the February 26 incident in Sanford…”

 

  I think Nancy Grace has a sister.  Angela Corey is, I think, a twin for Nancy Grace. 

  I will admit that Angela Corey pulled off a first class con job with the news media. 
She is going places in the world of politics.  She charged George Zimmerman with second-degree murder.  A charge there is no way they can win in court.  But it sounds good and makes her look good.
  She can let someone else handle the court case and she can run for office saying well I arrested him and charged him with second degree murder but a judge tossed out or someone else lost the case in court.  She saved her ass.

  I think they pretty much know what is going to happen.  There will be a hearing soon before a judge to see if George Zimmerman is protected by the “Stand Your Ground” law.  
  She may try and pick a judge that will go her way but I suspect that the judge will rule that George Zimmerman is protected by the “Stand Your Ground” law.
  So Angela Corey is saved by the judge.   My guess is they will pick a judge that is ready to retire and has not desire to hold any office in politics.  So he will take some heat for awhile.
  The judge will get a free Life Membership in the NRA (I bet he already has one).

  This might all be the best thing for George Zimmerman.  The mob wanted him arrested.  So he has been arrested.  Lots of people wanted him charged with murder and hell he is charged with second-degree murder (20 years to life in prison). 
  That may calm down the people and so when he walks free it maybe accepted more … We will see.

  But I think Angela Corey is a master bull shitter.  I know bull shit when I see it and smell it.

Joe Scarborough trying to sell Mitt Romney

  Now Joe Scarborough is trying to sell Mitt Romney big time each morning on “Morning Joe.”
This morning he was saying that President Obama was just a “community organizer” and had not got anything done.  He said Mitt Romney  was a business man that has done things on Wall Street! 
  One of the people at the desk said you can not say that President Obama is now just a community organizer because he has gone things done.  He saved the auto industry and he got   Osama bin Laden.
  You then see Scarborough get tense and he speaks louder and he says "using Bush policies.” 
So President Obama, according to Scarborough, just got Osama bin Laden using Bush policies.  That is pretty lame.  It is what Fox News and the right wing people said when it was announced that bin Laden was dead.  But I think even they gave up on that.

  Joe Scarborough thinks that selling Mitt Romney has a Wall Street 1% person is going to get him elected!  We do not want those people in government.  They are the people that been screwing us for years.  They are the reason that we are in the mess we are in right now.
  
  Joe Scarborough says that Mitt Romney just needs to “define himself” as a successful Wall Street person.  One of the guest at the table said “the more he defines the more unelectable” he will be!
I agree with that comment.

  Someone else said that Mitt Romney just does not have the appeal.  Scarborough did not say a word.  The camera was not on him for awhile and I was wondering if maybe he went home.
  When the camera went to Scarborough it looked like he was a pouting kid.  Mika Brzezinski asked him a question and he never looked up from the paper and he said “what do you think Willie (Geist)?  
  There was some talking about how bad Mitt Romney was doing with female voters and still nothing was said by Joe Scarborough and then as the show went on … when the camera went to Joe he still had the paper in his hand and he looked like he was going to cry!

  I would hate to be on the show with Joe Scarborough.  Mika Brzezinski must have some guts.  Joe does not want people to disagree with him on the show.  He has some great people on the show.  That is to his credit.  They let him give his point of view and let him run on and let him act like he is THE expert on politics.  They never cut him off.  But when someone disagrees with his views he gets all upset.
  Of course Mika can just roll her eyes or give a little smile and get her feeling across.  
  Scarborough needs to let everyone make their own positions.  You might think that he does but he often does not if he does not agree or if he has made his statement and then you take a different position he gets upset.

Sarah Palin to fill in for J. Fred Mugg on Today Show

  It took NBC many years to find a person with the same IQ as J. Fred Mugg.  But at long last the “Today” show has found a re-placement for J. Fred Mugg. 

  OK, well I remember watching him and I think he is a little smarter than Sarah Palin.
  Yes,  Sarah Palin is going to replace J. Fred Mugg on the show.

“NEW YORK (CNN) -- Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will co-host NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday, according to Megan Kopf, a spokeswoman for NBC Universal.

"She'll reveal a different side of her than you've seen before," the morning show's website boasted Sunday.

Last week ABC announced that former "Today" host Katie Couric will fill in for Robin Roberts as co-host of "Today's" rival morning show, "Good Morning America," all week.

Couric co-hosted "Today" for 15 years before leaving for CBS…”

 

   I guess that the “Today” show is no longer a morning news show.  Sarah Palin is not very good at current events, history … well she is not very good at anything.  But if Russia should come up in the show she can tell us that she can see it from her house.
  
  Please NBC get the Teleprompter all set up for Sarah Palin.  In the past she has had to write notes on her hands.  Thing like her name.  So please get that Teleprompter all set up Sarah Palin. 

Gruesome anti-smoking ads

  I am not sure if you have seen the very graphic and very real anti-smoking ads on TV. 
I do not smoke and I never smoked.
  The anti-smoking ads are very gruesome.  Two times in the last week I started to watch some show on TV and one of those advs came up.  I switched the channel and did not watch the program I was going to watch.

  I do not want to see that stuff on my TV set.  
  I am not sure how odd I am or if there are others like me but seeing that sort of stuff just is to emotional for me. 
  I do not watch horror movies for that reason.  I do not watch a lot of movies that have the rest of you love because they are painful to my system. 
  Now I am trying to watch some TV show and I have the gruesome sick anti-smoking ads pop up.

  I do not know if they can not broadcast when kids are watching TV or not.  If that is the case then they will force me to me only watch TV during kid safe hours.

  
 

“Federal health officials unveiled a graphic new anti-smoking campaign featuring testimonials from ex-smokers about the toll of tobacco on their health.

These aren't the usual public service announcements. The $54 million "Tips from Smokers" campaign marks the first time the federal government plans to pay to run anti-smoking ads nationwide, officials said.

The ads will run for 12 weeks on TV, on the radio, in magazines and newspapers, on billboards, online and elsewhere beginning March 19, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which developed the campaign.

One ad, for example, features a woman who has a hole in her neck and has to speak through a small speaker in her throat because of cancer…”  NPR

 

  Just wonderful… Not only are they pushing this into my face but it is costing $54 million dollars of tax money.
  OK OK I understand that if people give up smoking because of it then it saves many lives.  I also fully understand that if some people give up smoking it will save us all billions and billions of dollars in health care costs.   I also understand that if people can say healthy they can work and pay taxes.

  But I do not want to see advs.

Trayvon Martin case stirs extremists

“(CNN) -- The national conversation over Trayvon Martin's killing is loud and intense. In some places, it's also vile and violent.

The case -- in which a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer killed the unarmed black teen in Sanford, Florida, on February 26 -- has sparked a national controversy. It has also stoked extremist views, particularly on the Internet, experts say.

George Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense after the teen attacked him. Martin's family has disputed that.

Investigators have not charged Zimmerman.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights group that fights bigotry, said the case has stirred up "extremists on both sides of the racial divide."

A visitor to the website of one white supremacist group, for example, left a comment calling Martin "a punk negroe who messed with the wrong guy."

Meanwhile, the New Black Panther Party has offered a $10,000 reward for anyone who "captures" Zimmerman, an offer that Martin's family has condemned…”

 

  There are events that happen that cause an increase in racism.  The Rodney King event was one of them.  The OJ trial was one of them.  The Trayvon Martin death is another one.
  Just when we think that things are getting better in the United States something that will happen and extremists have something to use to try and create hate and drive a wedge between races. (In Iraq and other places they can use a bombing or something to create hate.) 
  Here the extremists have events created for them.  Something will happen and then both sides jump in.
 
  I think things are getting worst because of the Internet and all the message boards and comment sections and the news media.
  The news media fan the flames when they try and get a story and be first with it and come up with some new point.   The news media feels no responsibility for the rage they help create.  If there is more rage then that gives them something more to report. 

  The anonymous internet comments are a major part of the problem.  I do not think that we should even allow anonymous comments.  Everyone that wants to comment should have to prove that they are who they say they are.
  With the Trayvon Martin shooting you got a lot of white racist leaving comments pretending to be black.  They will leave comments about killing white people or something that is going to make weak minded and stupid rednecks to come back and comment. 
  Everyone pretty much knows what buttons to push to fan the flames of the fire.
  If you own a gun shop and you want to increase sales just log on and post a comment someplace saying you are black and you are going to kill white people.   White people will run out to gun shops and buy every gun in the store.  Everyone pretty much knows how to do shit like that.
 

  I do not even think that CNN should have a comment section after a news story.  If you read the comments they are always filled with hate.  Or they could just not allow anyone to post a message until the message has been read and approved by CNN staff.  Of course then they would have very few messages. 

  I think that someone should have some sort of way to punish the “news media” for their errors.
When there is a school shooting and students and teachers are hiding in a classroom and the news media reports on TV we just got word that students and teachers are hiding in such and such a class room there should be some sort of punishment that the network suffers to they do not do that again. 
  I am 100% sure that there is no “fucking coon” on the Zimmerman 911 tape.  The FBI will have the ability, I bet, to tell is yes or no.  I watched CNN playing with the tape and playing it over and over again.  So now if the FBI comes out and say no that was not “fucking coon” on the tape you got millions of people that will never accept it.

Joe Scarborough supports the Stand Your Ground law

  You can depend on the right wing Republicans.  They never let the NRA down.   This morning on “Morning Joe” everyone was calling for the arrest of Zimmerman.  Joe Scarborough was demanding his arrest right now. 
  Then Joe Scarborough was asked about the FL “Stand Your Ground” law and Scarborough defended the law.  He said it did not need any changes.  He loves the law.  He thinks the law is great.  I had the feeling just thinking about the law was giving him a erection.  I think I saw Mika Brzezinski look down and then move away from him.