Tinfoil Hat Feature of the Week

Folks, you heard it here twelve thousand and first: another All-Barner claims that the Red Elephant Club is on the move! Money quote:

Do you believe the NY Times articles were blown out of proportion by
accident? How 'bout the bammer media ..... do you think that Finebaum's move to a different network and the Mobile press actions were taken on a whimsical lark? ... what about the rumors surrounding Auburn's FCA ministries? Do you think it's an accident?

As I dive under my desk in fear of black helicopters, I can't help but think that Mobile, AL has been turned into a veritable Area 51. But wait, there's more!

The REC is the tactical arm of the Bama machine .... and they are very busy these days. Now that they have TNB (The Next Bear) they are funding the ressurrection of the Bama "brand & tradition." The money is flowing-in at an unprecedented rate.

The proof of this?

Advertisers are frothing at the mouth in their effort to fund programs aimed at the Bama-believers ..... and one needs look no further than their spring game to see the potential gravy train.

I'm sold. Better yet, I've seen the light! Lookee here at my shiny new keychain pendant!

For those of you who are Lord of the Rings fans, these folks would have us believe that the REC is analogous to Sauron's minions fanning out over Middle Earth in search of the ring. But since this is the real world, we can safely assume that these unemployed barners are making these hysterical tin-foil posts from the comfort of grandma's basement.

The one similarity? They probably look alot like hobbits.

Not so fast my friend!

UGA coach Mark Richt has been drinking the Tony Davis Kool-Aid. Mark it down people, mark it down. Everybody just needs to go ahead and mail in the next two years of the college football season. This includes you, Sabear.

Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week

Well, at least according to legendary announcer Larry Munson.

Health care a la Karl Marx?

So I finally got around to seeing Sicko (watch it here), and you know what? It is excellent. Completely excellent. Michael Moore certainly knows how to tug at the emotions. Have to admit I was tearing up in spots. I especially loved the stats on what politicians were owned. Priceless! My one beef with what he showed was a completely unnecessary interview with the daughter of Che Guevara, that mass murderer, who remains inexplicably popular in Hollywood. I could have done without that.

However, I think I'm sticking to my initial hunch: he's dead on about the problems we face but overreaches in calling for complete, single-pay government control.

Check out this article making similar point. I was fascinated that the author is an economic advisor to the Obama campaign, which raises my interest in his candidacy. Key passage:

So, to do as Moore wants in the United States, you would need to do more than just overcome the insurance industry. You would need to cut the salaries of doctors, reform the legal system, enrage our allies by causing their prescription drug costs to escalate, and accustom patients to a central decision-maker authorized to determine what procedures they are and are not allowed to get. Unless every one of these changes comes together, Moore's new system would end up costing an enormous amount of money.

In light of the seriousness of the problem, and the extent to which our politicians are so obviously bought off, Gooslbee's response to Moore is certainly less trite than, say, this one.

Update: Ooops!

The Road to Serfdom

It's in news stories like these.

Mr. Buffet's Challenger

My buddy told me about this, but at first I didn't believe him that Warren B actually did this. Pretty interesting stuff. Your thoughts?

Warren Buffet at Clinton Fundraiser

New Strategy for 2008

Some neoconservative bloggers have landed on a new strategy for 2008: sarcasm and ridicule. What's interesting is the object of that scorn... Congressman Ron Paul. Examples can be found here, here and here.

I understand disagreement, but Paul is known as a champion of limited government. Isn't that important? Why all the vitrol?

Stay tuned for On The Beach's exclusive YouTube Presidential Debate questions...

SHUT IT DOWN!!

The cries to shutdown Gitmo since the bumper sticker "War on Terror" started have been deafening from the left. Here's a report on a recent Gitmo Alum.

China and Islamic Radicalism

A thing or two items that make you go hmmmmm.

Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week

Not literally, but pretty close.

Porcelain Pundit Ramblings

My firs porcelain post.

A couple thoughts: don't ever hang wallpaper in your house - you'll
regret the day you want to take it down.

The people of at Blockbuster have the iq of pacman.

I need an ac vent in here and a tv.

Tinfoil Hat Feature of the Week

As if all the hoopla surrounding the the University of Alabama's cozy relationship with Hoover High School wasn't enough, take a look at this interesting earmark in a recent senate appropriations report (towards the bottom of the article). Apparently, the Red Elephant Club has Alabama Sen. Shelby's balls in a vice clamp. Can we expect an emergency meeting of barner conspiracy theorists?

More Military Shenanigans

More on the military story. It appears that left wing nutcases have infiltrated our armed forces. It's the only explanation for these political donations. Evidence of critical thought among seasoned military veterans has been confirmed by a key insider at the Panama City News-Herald with contacts at Tyndall airforce base. This is the last post I'll make on the subject.

Military Cut n' Runners

A recent poll at military.com yielded some surprising results. Surprising enough, in fact, to cause the editor of the site to make the following observations:

If this is, in fact, a media war that we're losing, which, in turn, will cause us to lose the actual war, then how did we come to be losing? Because as I remember it, the media seemed onboard for the big win back in '03. They we're embedded - riding tanks with the first wave, sending blurry videophone reports from the front every hour on the hour. The embeds were smiling; back home the Pentagon press corps was smiling (along with Donald Rumsfeld). Life was good. Hell, the whole nation was swept up in the Abilene Paradox of it all.

So at what point did the MSM decide we were going to lose this thing? Was it during the Fallujah campaign in '04 (the one where we kicked their butts)? And what was the media's motivation behind the decision? Ratings? More ad dollars?

I'm just asking because the poll I'm referring to here wasn't conducted by CNN or ABC or The New York Times but by Military.com. We know who our audience is. Military.com regulars are pro-military, to put it mildly. The military experience isn't some vague concept to them. They served or are serving, along with their families.

Seems like a certain editor at Military.com hasn't been listening to enough Sean Hannity...

Fiscal Responsibility

If one were to go about electing a presidential candidate on the basis of fiscal conservatism, wouldn't one start by looking at how he spends money in his own campaign? Just a thought

Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week

This week's deck chair goes to none other than Falcons QB Michael Vick. A federal indictment is pretty much like a big iceberg slashing a hole in the hull of a ship in the North Atlantic on a mid April night in the early 1900's.

And the show has reached a new low.

This guy gets the self-proclaimed Nut-Ball Box Award.

Gooo DAWGS and ROLLLL TIDE!!!!

The jails are busy housing college football players from Georgia and Bama.

By the way, I've got a pile of stones in a big glass house. Whoooo!!

Update: WEEEEEEEEEE!

Socialism Creeps

The House of Ill Repute, running so far to the left that Che Guevara would blush, has just passed a restrictive and expensive markup aimed at America's Real Estate industry. This is the industry responsible for leading the country out of the 2001-2002 recession. The amazing progress in operating and energy efficiencies in real estate, the growing success of groups like the USGBC and industry-driven energy efficiency standards being incorporated into ASHRAE's new Standard 189 are irritating to our Soviet planners, who wish to control the industry themselves. It's worth suggesting that these bureaucrats couldn't manage a hot dog stand in the free market.

Any wonder why the US is falling behind in world class construction projects?

Larry Flynt

Don't you think it's great how someone like Larry Flynt is all the sudden an expert on morality?

Tinfoil Hat Feature of the Week

Is alien life really out there? Who are we and where did we come from? Is a hot dog really made of meat? These are questions that have plagued mankind for generations. Fortunately, we can answer at least one of those questions today. In the latest real UFO sighting, all our questions about the existence of aliens have now been answered. From now on I'll be checking in from my steel-reinforced concrete bunker...

Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week

This week's feature centers around the Beltway scandal that looks like might prove to be some politicians undoing. For those not keeping score, this is now two people associated with the Giuliani campaign involved in some sort of impropriety. The Giuliani campaign gets honorable mention.

Update: Breaking news that last week's winner of the Titanic deck chair has finally hit the bottom with a thud.

You heard it here first!

Stay off the beach and get in the water! You're safer there. Sand may look harmless and comfortable, but it is a Silent Killer!

"I'm a Rock Star. I know EVERYTHING."

That is the typical mantra from anyone that garners a hit song. Suddenly, like Denis Leary once said, once you've got that hit song/video, you THINK you can tell everyone how they need to feel or vote about worldly or political issues. Well, much to my surprise, some "rock stars" have spoken out against this mantra specifically as it pertains to this hypocritical Al Gore sponsored LIVE EARTH concert.

Touche.

Tinfoil Hat Feature of the Week

Back by popular demand, it's the Tinfoil Hat of the Week! This week, we travel to the mother of all conspiracy theories... UFO's in Roswell! For sheer entertainment value, you just can't beat it. Who will we trust? The government, or the ex-government employee? My last interaction with a government employee involved being directed into oncoming traffic at a busy intersection. Geniuses, these folks. So this UFO stuff is a toss-up. Here at Earning 20, we report and you decide.

Die Hard 4

As the porcelain pundit, I figure its my duty to post on movies, especially the a sequel to the blogs name sake. Gotta flush away the crap, you know?

I really enjoyed the movie. It was amazing what a difference 12 years from the last Die Hard movie can do in terms of CGI and special effects. Just like all the other Die Hard movies, this one was full of unbelievable things that warrant a Mythbusters. For example, shooting a fire extinguisher to cause it to explode and blow some one out the window. All the normal stuff was there too - bombs, automatic weapons, car chases, etc.

There weren't too many references to the past movies. Holly McClane was not even mentioned, but her daughter had a slight role towards the beginning and at the end as a hostage. She did do the bit where she says her last name is Gennaro at first in anger towards her dad, but later changes it back to McClane when he saves the day. He did bring up the fact that he had done this kind of thing before, but made no references to Nakkatomi, the Washington Airport, or NYC.

The PG-13 rating did seem to hamper the character of McClane a little bit. He was still very witty and sarcastic, but noticably more subdued. He appeared to have grown up a little bit since Die Hard 3. He did not drink or smoke in this one, which was a noticable abscence for McClane. He did manage to squeeze in the famous Yipee-yi-yea Mother ****** though.

He did however, almost tear up when he spoke about being a hero. A little lame, but not romance so I decided to stay in the theatre and finish the movie out - especially since it was $8.50 to get in.

Go see this movie. You'll enjoy it.

Die Hard 4 Tonight

Tonight I am going to see Die Hard 4.  I hope it is not a complete let down.  As long as they do not do the same thing to John McClane as they did to Superman I am sure it will be alright.

If the Die Hard movie contains any of the following I will walk out.

• John McClane getting back together with his wife at the end of the movie.
• John McClane comforting any supporting character after a death or tragedy.
• John McClane having a “romantic event”.  This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Hugging
2. Kissing
3. Dropping the “L” Bomb
• Any form of crying or sadness by John McClane.  Should not happen.

 

Mark my words. 

BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!

First Auburn University. Now it's UF's turn.

Mash here.

Cruitin Update - Bammer vs. The Barn

As part of our expanding coverage here on "On The Beach Earning 20%", we will looking closely at SEC football happenings as we prepare for the 2007 season. Football recruiting (Cruitin) in the SEC is the "second" football season that, for the most part, goes on year round. There are many recruiting experts around these days and sometimes they like to make foolish mid-summer predictions. Here's one prognosis that earns a laugh from the leadership on the plains.

Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week

Beginning today, we will try to feature a weekly story entitled "Titanic Deck Chair Feature of the Week."

For our first inaugural story, we go to the 2008 campaign for US President. This week's Titanic Deck chair goes to this fellow.

A Former Extremists View

This is very interesting - he was a former extremist who knew the men who recently bombed London.

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist

"It was on that day... I put a jihad on them. And if you don't believe it, then you'd better kill me now, because I'll put a jihad on you too. " - Gary

Captain Limited Government

What is it about pork these days? Sometimes you've got to wonder what "true" limited government means. Oh well, I've got some conspracy theorists waiting on my call.

Independence Day Blogging!!

This July 4th will be an unprecedented event in blogging history. Our own, Matt L., will be blogging the Peachtree Road Race while running it! He will be using this to help him out

The Dude's Shirt

I've Got a Machine Gun

Ho Ho Ho