Year: 2005

I don’t buy it.

GoDaddy.com spends $5 million dollars to air one commercial twice during the Super Bowl yesterday. Trouble is, it only ran once, due to a decision by Fox execs and skittish NFL brass who thought the subject matter was a little too intense. Now GoDaddy is evaluating their legal options, even though they’re getting ten times the exposure now that the “story” is catching on in the media. I saw the ad and frankly, it was lame. The larger story is the wimpiness of the NFL. What’s worse, the game is now known more for it’s linkage to Janet Jackson than its exhibition of superior athletic talent. I think that stinks. Today, it’s less about football and more about the six hour pregame coverage, the pregame musical entertainment (Charlie Daniels, Earth Wind and Fire, mixed with Black Eyed Peas – whatsupwiththat?), the “aged Hollywood actor married to a babe” on the field narration, the trotting out of ex-presidents who hate each other, the exploitation of blind kids, the excessive strobe light fog machine team introductions, the constant camera shots of has been celebrities in the stands, the pre-halftime entertainment, the schmaltzy halftime pop music (OK, I am a Beatles fan, so Paul McCartney gets a pass, even if he’s 102 years old now), the constant OVER-HYPE of every minute of broadcast time, along with the CONSTANT AFOREMENTIONED COMMERCIALS.

Everything went to pot after Super Bowl X and that freakin “Up With People” halftime show.

Super Bowl III, where art thou?

I’m busy with the day job today, so no bloggin until tonight.

I’m back on American soil.

I’m flying back to the US in less than 12 hours and will be offline until sometime Sunday. Be good.

Token job set to keep him in the news up to the 2008 campaign. My bet is he’ll be the first to step foot in New Hampshire.

Dude. He’s only 8 years younger than you.

Update: The boo-boo has been kissed.

John Vernon

More: Obit

Don’t like the meaning of a word? If you’re a Democrat, you can freely change it to whatever suits your agenda best.

Congresswoman Attempts to Redefine the Phrase ‘Occupying Force’:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s use of the term “occupying force” to describe the U.S. military presence in Iraq was not a “harsh term,” said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.), who attempted to redefine the terminology.

“I believe that we can, if you will, change “occupying’s” definition to being collaborators — collaborators with the Iraqi people and moving them toward their own self-government,” Jackson Lee told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday night at the U.S. Capitol following President Bush’s State of the Union address.

“So I think it is not a harsh term. We were there occupying, if you will, and we needed to do so for a certain degree, if you believe that the war created the havoc that occurred,” Jackson Lee said.

“I think you can look at the U.S. presence in [Iraq] many different ways; and for large numbers of Iraqi people, despite the democratic elections [on Sunday], we are occupying,” she added.

Stupid is as stupid does.

Via James Morrison’s Embassy Row:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice illiterate and suggested in a speech last week that she had sexual dreams about him, prompting outrage among Venezuelan women’s groups, which denounced his “obscene and lewd” remarks.

Vulgar little twit.