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One of the Democrat ads urging women vote for Obama compares voting to having sex.

Not about having safe sex or having it with a soul mate, though...



DUNHAM:  Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy with beautiful ... someone who really cares about and understands women.  Think about how you want to spend those four years. In college age time, that’s 150 years.  It’s super uncool to be out and about and someone says, "Did you vote?" and you, "No, I didn’t, I wasn’t ready." My first time voting was amazing. It was this line in the sand. Before I was a girl. Now I was a woman. I went to the polling station and pulled back the curtain. I voted for Barack Obama.

(Let me just point out, being a girl with an illegitimate baby doesn't make you a woman. It just makes you a stupid girl.  Going out and living on your own, and supporting yourself - that's what makes you a woman!)

Leverage: unknown episode

I watched a bit of this on Channel 27 - it was supposed to be an episode of Bones but instead it's leverage.

Leverage is a reboot of Mission Impossible - you've got the fight expert, male and white, the electronics expert, black, the thief, blond white woman named Parker, the bad actress on the stage good actress in real life conwoman, and the mastermind played by Jim Hutton.

So the black guy is buried alive in a coffin in a cemetery.  The mastermind and the fighter drive up to a van that has two villains. The fighter knocks out one guy, removes the clip from his auto-pistol...and then drops the pistol on the ground to go fight, bare-handed, against the second of the two goons, who is apparently also a good fighter.

SO mastermind and the two women run around looking for the newly turned earth. The guy who'd been knocked out wakes up, takes a clip from his pocket, reloads the pistol that the idiot fighter had just dropped on the ground, and goes after them, forcing them to take cover behind some headstones.

So Parker, the blond thief, runs out of cover, turning somersaults and various gymnastics as she dives from cover to cover before coming up behind the guy with the gun and knocking him out. What utter, utter bilge water.

There's a reason why people sprinting in a race do so on their two legs, not turning somersaults along the way. That's a tremendous waste of time and would make her a sitting duck more than anything else.

But the major problem with this episode is of course the gun. If you have a villain with a gun, and you take the gun away from the villain, don't just take out the clip and drop the gun on the ground. No! You keep hold of the gun, and turn it on the two villains and tell them to put their hands up.

But, of course, if our character had been smart enough to do this - there would have been no "exciting" fight scene, and no "exciting" shooting scene, and no opportunity for Parker to do her gymnastics stuff.

Still, it was stupid.

What in the world happened to A&E?

A&E stands for arts & entertainment. It used to show quality television = "arts" and the entertainment was PBS type stuff.

I'm not sure when the transition occurred, it must have been several months ago if not longer...

So right now on A&E they are showing Billy the Exterminator. A white guy with long hair, wearing shades even indoors (how can he see the bugs he's killing?) and studded gloves goes around killing pests. At least he doesn't have any tattoos.

But jeez...what the hell is this doing on the A&E channel? And now it's Criminal Minds. That doesn't belong here either. But it gets worse. This is the channel that has Parking Wars, and Duck Dynasty - reality series that are dumbing down America on a daily basis.

Sad!

Sears commercial

Watching Tigers vs Yankees on TBS.

I've seen this Sears commercial a few times before, but it always irritates me.

A scruffy couple - young man and woman, on a beach. A typical "love" commercial.

Then the guy jogs along the beach, running along while looking behind him at the girl, and runs straight into a refrigerator.

This is supposed to be funny?

Worse, the girl runs up - and she's actually looking at the fridge, and she runs right into it too.

It's not funny, it's kind of sadistic. And yet I bet there are people watching this commercial - probably teens, who laugh and laugh when they see it.

Tattoo Rescue: reality series

What in the world is with these reality series?

I saw a teaser for Tattoo Rescue today.  The rescue expert and his team go to a tattoo parlor whose owner seems uninterested in paying attention to their advice.

Well...gee...if that's the case tell her good luck and leave. Why even go there?

Charmin bath tissue

I never did like those Charmin commercials where there are bears in the woods, using toilet paper.

For one reason, its so anatomically incorrect. Why would they have bits of toilet paper on their butt-cheeks, rather than...you know.

Bring back the Don't squeeze the Charmin guy, for God's sake!

State Farm's Discount Double Check

Okay, the first commercial featuring Aaron Rogers of the Green Bay Packers and his stupid "move' (the Wrestler's Belt" was funny - clueless folks in an Allstate office think he's doing a robot dance or what have you and don't recognize him as the Green Bay quarterback...

But of course now they're milking it dry with a couple more commercials along the same theme.

I have to say I hate these "moves" that football players dream up.

You score a touchdown? Your celebration should be spontaneous and real and with your teammates.

But no... you've got guys who literally brush off their teammates so they can do a dance or call attemtion to themselves in some way - and it's not spontaneous - you know they've rehearsed it and are doing it not because they're happy, but because they want to show up their opponents.

I hate that.

Daunte Culpepper always got ragged for his touchdown "dance" - he'd twirl his arms together and no one understood why he did it until he explained - in basketball it's the referee's signal that someone had "traveled" and I guess he'd been called for traveling once in a basketball game and it had stuck in his craw.

Aaron Rogers' is almost as dumb. He makes a move with both hands like he's putting on a wrestler's gigantic belt (and is there anything more tacky than those huge belts they aware as prizes in wrestling matches?) Talk about stupid!

Parking Wars (TV SEries)

There's a Parking Wars - the commercial for which I've just seen - and I think there's something called RepoWars - the commercial for which I saw yesterday.

All these shows teach disobedience to authority, and that getting up in someone's face and provoking violence is a virtue.

Yesterday for the Repo Wars one, a large black woman was threatening the big guy who was going to take her car. They were standing close to each other like they were going to start duking it out. And they probably did.

And there are way too many folks in the world who would watch a fight between a man and a big ol' woman and actually enjoy it... although they'd be dreaming that the woman was a hundred pounds lighter and fighting another shapely women in a mudpit, I have no doubt.