Day: October 19, 2009

The McBournie Minute: Get ready for the return flight

Last week I was scrolling through the channels because my cable box was having issues downloading program info. It was like being back in 1996. I had to scroll through the channels not pressing the page up/page down buttons, but the channel up/channel down ones instead.

I stopped at FX, because they are generally good to me, after all, they brought us the greatest show about Denis Leary’s stand-up world this side of The Job. But tonight’s fare was not quite at that level. Instead I got the last half hour of Snakes on a Plane. I know it was cool four years ago for blogs to be all excited about this movie, but really, it’s a second-rate action flick that’s never sure if it’s supposed to be sarcastic or not.

Naturally, I watched it.

I even got in in time for Samuel L. Jackson’s famous (if not edited) line: “That is it! I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!” Those of you who follow me on Twitter know where I’m going with this. Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Get ready for the return flight

What’s the world coming to?

B-b-but there's a cross on his bathrobe. War on Christmas!You know, we can only guess where we’re headed in this handbasket when an old Southern man is accused of racism simply because he:

1) Refuses to marry interracial couples.

2) Does so because he worries about mixed-race children.

3) According to the phone call, seems mostly concerned about black-and-white interracial marriages.

4) Believes that, if “you really and truly feel down in your heart,” this isn’t wrong.

Is that all? That’s all the evidence you have?

What? This Justice of the Peace actively violated the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision that “the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State?”

That’s it?

Gosh, folks. What’s next? Will other people be accused of racism simply because they think a quarterback is overrated because he’s black, implying that there has never been a good black quarterback in the history of the NFL?

In Soviet Russia, airplane plows snow

If you live near Moscow, you better hope that you’re not a big fan of those picturesque Christmas movies.

The mayor of Moscow has promised that, with the help of a small nominal budgetary fee and the Russian Air Force, there will be no snow. Now, this actually has a chance at a positive effect on the town, as with roads not blanketed by snow, people will actually be able to go to work on time.

Of course, there’s a possible snitch in the plan. Cloud seeding doesn’t necessarily work very well. In some cases it generates precipitation, in some cases it seems to prevent precipitation, and the big question is really would it have rained/snowed there without seeding? Because whenever they try it, they’re going for a big over-saturated cloud that was gonna go off in a downpour anyway. Also, since they’ll be seeding with cement, just imagine what the hail is going to turn out like.

Sadly, I doubt that Luzhkov has the intelligence to separate it into 3 pieces-just in case.

The war on debt

History may tell you that the Allies won World War II, in fact, it was the U.S. that really did the winning. We tipped the balance in the European theater and pretty much ran the show in the Pacific theater, too. But the government’s effort was funded by American citizens.

Well the time has come to pay the piper, and what better a time than during a global financial crisis (remember, Bernake said the recession is over)? Six states are suing the federal government for over $16 billion for unclaimed war bonds.

But if we claim the war bonds now, doesn’t that mean that the Nazis win?