Windows Genuine Advantage Suckage

My latest tale of Microsoft woe began in late summer/early fall of 2008 with the premature death of my beloved Dell XPS gaming computer.

At first, I blamed an aborted attempt to download Microsoft's Windows XP SP3. But based on the results of a detailed post-mortem by my awesome friend Logtar, The Borg Collective appears to be blameless. I just let the ventilation system get clogged up and I fried the motherboard through sheer lack of basic maintenance.

But while I had direct access to the highest levels of Microsoft technical support, I took advantage of it. I got nightly calls from India from very knowledgeable techs who spent HOURS on the phone showering me with curry-scented personal attention.

One of the attempts they made to fix the problem was to send me a new Windows XP Professional installation disk which includes Service Pack 2, since I couldn't find my disks.

Bottom line, long story short, we never revived my XPS and through an act of unbelievable kindness (scratch that..if you know these people, the kindness is TOTALLY believable. Awesome peeps!), I now have a new/used computer. When we were setting it up, we used the Windows XP Professional disks that MS sent me.

Now, I'm starting to get annoying messages from Windows Genuine Advantage wanting me to verify that I have a legitimate copy of Windows. I've been ignoring the annoying messages because although I have the product key, the disk itself has a label that says "UNLICENSED SOFTWARE - Illegal without separate license from Microsoft".

I don't know what that means. I can't believe Microsoft would send me an illegal copy of their own software.

I've been ignoring them long enough that I can no longer play any videos that require Windows Media Player 11 because Microsoft is blocking it. This is severely, I repeat SEVERELY limiting my access to The Good Porn.

Now, I have recently discovered my original Dell XPS supplied Windows XPS Re installation disk, still in it's shrink wrap.

So here is my question to you, my loyal reader.

Do I try to go through the Genuine Windows Advantage validation using the Windows XP Professional CD that Microsoft sent me during my "servicing" that is currently installed on my new/used Dell Optiplex?

Or do I cut open the shrink wrap and install my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 from the old Dell XPS over the top of the older Windows XP Professional from 2002 supplied by Microsoft?

Which path will present the least pain and the most porn?

This is very important.

Discuss.

Meat Locker People

In a recent twitter exchange, @m_toast declared a humid, muggy, 95 degree day to be "gorgeous"!

I responded that I would rather be "thisclose" to frostbite than break a single bead of sweat.

She responded by lumping me in with a group she refers to as "meat locker" people.

I want to go on record as EMBRACING the Meat Locker People label!

Let me explain something.

Meat lockers are really, really cold!

Know why? I'll tell ya why.

The cold temperature PRESERVES THE MEAT and keeps it from ROTTING!

I'll let you in on another little secret. You? Me? All those people around you? We're made out of meat!

Cold temperatures are kind to humans! Hot, muggy, swampy conditions are hostile to humans.

This weather FUCKING SUCKS and KILLS PEOPLE!

I'm not going anywhere or doing anything until October when the planet is once again hospitable to humans.

Until then, I will be the most un-environmentally friendly, un-green, and nipply comfortable bastard on the planet. Ima have a carbon footprint that will dwarf Alaska if that's what it takes to keep me comfortable.

Predatory Lending

My credit is crap, and I'm OK with that. I prefer living in the now on a cash available basis.

It's crap because of choices and decisions I made in the past that don't need to be delved into here. Perhaps another time.

Since my financial reboot, I have been getting lots of offers for credit cards.

Like this one.

"XAVIER ONASSIS,

You have been Pre-Approved for a Platinum Visa card with a credit line up to $1500."

They go on to tell you how fabulous this offer is, how easy it is to apply, all of the additional features they offer, blah, blah, blah.

The average consumer might think "This is my opportunity to rebuild my credit! Here is a company willing to give me a second chance! They've looked at my credit history and pre-approved me! They like me! They really, really like me!"

Umm, no, Sparky. That's not what is going on here.

The very first important piece of information listed is your Annual Percentage Rate.

23.90%

Yeah. You read that right. Seem excessive? Ever wonder why most credit card companies, including this one, have their HQ in Delaware?

It's because Republican Delaware Governor Pierre DuPont led an effort to redraft Delaware's tax laws to allow credit card companies to charge whatever interest rate they wanted to. No caps, no limits, no regulations. Go for it.

They can stick their predatory dicks as far up your ass as they want and you can't even scream for more lube.

So there's that.

Other prominent disclosures at the top are

Cash Advance Transaction Fee - $5.00 or 3% of the advance, whichever is greater

Minimum Finance Charge - $1.00 for any billing cycle in which a billing charge is due

Late Payment Fee - $32

Over Limit Fee - $30

Closed Account Maintenance Fee - $3 per month after account closure until paid in full.

The fine print in reduced font size and conveniently grayed out (as though it's not important) tells the informed consumer (like me) just how badly they can be butt fucked.

First of all, the Minimum Credit Line available is $200. Which is the credit line that people like me will get. People on this mailing list will NOT be getting the $1500 maximum. Don't kid yourself.

Immediately after that is the disclosure for ENROLLMENT AND ANNUAL FEES:

"A one time-only Enrolment Fee of $69 will be billed to your account when it's opened. The Annual Membership Fee of $69 will be billed to your account in monthly installments of $5.75 per month. These fees are not refundable unless you cancel your account within 30 days of the date your account is opened and if you have not used your credit account during this 30-day period."

But wait! It gets better!

"AVAILABLE CREDIT INFORMATION: The above Enrollment Fee and he first installment of he Annual Fee will be billed to your account when it is opened and will reduce the amount of your initial available credit. If your account is established with a $200 credit line, your initial available credit will be $125.25. If you select any optional feature for which a fee is charged, your initial credit will be further reduced."

One of the most prominent "optional features" is the Credit Protection Program.

I'll save you the legalese, but the bottom line is it's a program which, for a small monthly fee, it promises to allow you to cancel the "Payment Due for the Current Month" for up to 6 months and up to a maximum of $10,000.

Sounds good, right! Especially in this economy! You hit some hard times, you can just evoke your Credit Protection Program and not have to make any credit card payments for up to 6 months! Let you get back on your feet! AWESOME CREDIT CARD COMPANY!

Yuh huh.

Lets look at

AMOUNT OF PROGRAM CHARGE: The monthly Program Charge is based on your Account balance each month multiplied by the unit-cost, which is $0.96 (96 cents) per $100, or part thereof.

Alrighty then. Let's recap.

You're an average (stupid) consumer. You get an offer in the mail telling you you are pre-approved for a Visa card with a $1500 credit limit with a Credit Protection Program that will keep you from getting in the sort of problem you had before. They are willing to give you a second chance! Awesome!

You apply for the card and, of course, you get one.

You tuck it away in your wallet, not wanting to get back into debt again, but saving it for future emergency use.

Except.

It comes to you with a $69.00 balance and a guaranteed monthly charge of $5.75. This invokes the minimum finance charge of $1.00 a month in addition to the 23.90% finance charge.

If you went for the Credit Protection Program, there's another $0.96 per month per $100 of balance.

So even if you never swipe the card for a purchase and it just sits in your wallet, charges and interest rates increase without any action on your part.

Your initial $125.25 available credit is quickly overcome by automatic monthly charges and associated interest rates.

This will push you over your $200 credit limit and kick in the $30 Over Limit Fee.

If this gets hard to manage and you get behind, the $32 late payment fee starts to accumulate, adding to your balance to which the 23.90% interest rate is applied.

Get far enough behind that they close your account, and that triggers the $3 per month Closed Account Maintenance Fee.

So, bottom line.

You can optimistically apply for a seemingly generous credit card offer, never charge a dime on it, and immediately find yourself in debt over your head and very, very quickly get yourself in a downward spiral of fees and interest from which you can't escape.

This, my friends, is why unfettered Free Enterprise does not work.

Federal regulations are needed to call Shenanigans and say "No. I don't give a fuck what state you are in. You can't do shit like that in The United States of America, because we don't play that shit."

There Is Something Hinkey About This

Dad seeks custody of son taken to Brazil

"In 2004, David Goldman dropped off his wife, Bruna, and then-4-year-old son, Sean, at the airport for a two-week vacation in Brazil. Shortly after she arrived in her native country, Bruna told David she wanted a divorce and planned to stay in Brazil with their son.

Bruna later remarried and got pregnant, but she died while giving birth last summer. Goldman thought he was getting his son back, but a Brazilian family court judge granted custody of Sean to Bruna's new husband."

Goldman has been on every other TV show for years pleading his case.



But something about this whole scenario just rings hollow.

He claims no knowledge of any problems in the marriage before the wife split. OK. I can buy that. Been there, done that, twice.

But apparently there were problems. Problems so great that she didn't feel she could talk to him about them. Problems so great that she not only had to stage a surreptitious and dramatic escape to another continent, but she had to take her son with her.

Why?

According to Goldman, he got a call from Brazil on Father's Day.

"Bruna [his wife] says, "David, we need to talk. You're a great guy. You're a wonderful father, but our love affair is ended, is over. I've decided I want to live in Brazil and you need to come down to Brazil immediately and sign 10 pages of papers with my attorney." There was a list of demands on these papers. One was giving her full custody. Another was to never go to the courts to file any claims of kidnapping or criminal charges."

Alright, I've been through two divorces and more breakups than most people have had relationships. This account just reeks of bullshit. Relationships just don't end this way.

There is some shit going on that we don't know about and probably won't because the wife and mother is dead.

But here is what I think this is about.

As the biological father, Goldman is obligated to provide child support.

But the child's mother is dead and the child support payments would be going to the step father in Brazil, the man his wife left him for, and who has custody of his son.

His son is now 9 years old. I don't think Goldman wants to be forced to pay 5 years of retroactive and 9 years of proactive child support to the Brazilian guy who fucked and stole his wife.

Can't say as I blame him.

But it's completely wrong to stick his son in the middle of a 5 year long, international custody dispute in order to save face and money. That's not putting the interest of he child first.

The child is blameless in this and should be every one's first priority. Clearly, he is not.

This is all speculation on my part. I don't know what Goldman's motivation is. I don't know why his wife felt it necessary to make such a dramatic escape. I don't know why she remarried and became tragically pregnant so quickly. I don't know why Goldman would spend so much money over so many years to regain custody of a son that doesn't even remember him. I don't know why the wife's family in Brazil would fight so hard to keep the kid from going back to his father.

All I know is, it smells. Something isn't right. We don't have the complete story.

My God

No, I haven't found religion. I just can't think of any other words to voice my disbelief at the sheer self-satire contained in this video.

This is the most unbelievablely out-of-touch-with-reality piece of video I've ever seen.

What an incredible assemblage of attention whores! Geraldo Rivera? Ollie North? The sadly disappointing and pathetic Juan Williams?

Do they really believe this crap? Do they not get how full of shit they are?



Are you fucking kidding me? How can anyone with a pulse, over 32 brain cells and even the most basic of critical thinking skills believe this crap?



There is no network on the air more biased, less objective, more full of spin and with more of an agenda than Fox News.

All Bullshit, All The Time!

I don't have to make fun of them.

They parody themselves without realizing it.

Sugar Creek Slavic Festival Tonight

When:
RIGHT NOW!

Where:
Mike Onka Memorial Building
11520 E. Putnam
Sugar Creek, MO


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After the Outlaw Cigar Party earlier today, I decided to swing by the Slavic Fest. I almost went last year, but when I got to the gate I realized I didn't have any cash and it didn't look like the kind of place that would take plastic, so I bailed and did something else.

But this year I had some cash on me, so I went. $3.00 to get in the door. Not bad at all.

I was WAAYYY early. Gates opened at 3, I was there at 3:15. As I'm writing this it's 6:45 and I'm sure the place isn't even beginning to get hopping yet. The party goes till 11 tonight.

But I don't really like crowds and I just wanted to sample the food, so the "in and out early" technique that I employ at most social events was perfect.

After securing a Boulevard Wheat, my next stop was "Peter May's House of Kielbasa". Although, let's be honest, it was more of a "Tent of Kielbasa"



The process of aquiring food and drink was very strange. You couldn't actually use money. You had to use your money to buy tickets, which could then be exchanged a mere 2 feet away in the same tent for the actual food or drink.

What the fuck?

Is this a modern simulation of some sort of ancient, Slavic barter system? Or is it some sort of "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" way of getting around liquor laws and food safety regulations governing actual businesses?

I don't know, but it was all very confusing. Especially when I went to buy my ticket for the $4.00 kielbasa kabob. I gave the geezer my $4, but he only gave me a $2 ticket. I told him I needed another ticket. He said the tickets were "misprinted". The $2 ticket WAS the $4 ticket.

Alright, let's be clear here. That doesn't sound like a "misprint". It sounds like somebody ordered the wrong fucking tickets from the carnival company or whereever the fuck you order tickets from.

But whatevies. I got my kabob and it was toolicious!



I consumed my food on a stick and then nursed my beer as I surveyed the festival grounds. There is a main stage for the big musical acts with a large, open dance area where the bulk of the drunken festivities will ensue.



And there is a smaller venue inside for the most ancient of humans.



I found the carnival entertainment for the children to be somewhat lacking. A single inflatable bouncy house is kinda lame. I mean come on. I've seen birthday parties for kids in Excelsior Springs with more elaborate attractions.



How much can one of those toothless, unsafe, travelling, midwest, carnival companies really charge to come in and set up a Tilt-A-Whirl or Spinning-Tea-Cups?

I think Peter May might be related to Billy May.



Because he wasnt content to just thrust his kielbasa in your face, he was branching out into other merchandising.



Like T-shirts.



The headliner tonight is the 2 time grammy winning group Brave Combo! You should get off your lazy ass and go! There is stil plenty of time. Here is Brave Combo performing "People Are Strange" by The Doors at the Slavic Fest in 2007.



After thoroughly researching the event, I was done and ready to come home. I had no desire to stay until the place was filled with drunken, Sugar Creek Slavs dancing the night away. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just too old for that crap.

And too smart for DUI checkpoints. Fuck. That.

I had six bucks left so I picked up some ethnic desert to take home. It's called "kolache". Strangely, I could exchange cash directly for kolaches. The intervention of the tickets was not needed. I do not understand Slovacian customs or Sugar Creek laws.



The ones on the left are apricot kolaches. The ones on the right are prune kolaches.

I sampled one of each with a splash of bourbon and they were quite tasty.

But I didn't detect any major ethnic or cultural WOWness. It's bread and fruit.

Go get some fucking Pillsbury dough, flatten it, bake it, squirt some fruit paste into it and VOILA! Kolaches!

What I did detect, whoever, was an uproar in my bowels. My digective tract has no idea what the fuck a "kielbasa" is or what to do with it.

Top that off with a prune filled pastry and this is going to be a very interesting weekend.

I'll be sure to keep you posted!

Ciao, babies!

It's a Good Day So Far!

This was breakfast at the Outlaw Cigar party.



There were Corvettes, motorcycle, guns...





...and some really big, impressive equipment on display.



Now it's off for Round Two at the Sugar Creek Slavic Festival for some kielbasa and polka!

This Looks About Right

Your results:
You are Will Riker

Will Riker 80% Spock 70% Jean-Luc Picard 60% Worf 60% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 55% Deanna Troi 55% Beverly Crusher 50% Mr. Scott 45% Chekov 45% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 45% James T. Kirk (Captain) 40% Uhura 35% Geordi LaForge 35% Data 34% Mr. Sulu 30%

At times you are self-centered but you have many friends. You love many women, but the right woman could get you to settle down.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...

The Worst Blogging Advice Ever

Mary Sanchez laments the sad fate of a blogging waitress who was fired from her job for blogging about being a waitress.

Should a witty blog about your job get you fired?

The short answer to this question, is YES, you fucking moron!

"The restaurant server predicted her own demise when she posted these words: “Well, here goes suicide by blog. Stay tuned for the fallout."

Good call. One might almost say, prophetic.

The stupidest thing any blogger can do is blog about their real life, their real job, or their real employer's customers.

Mary seems to disagree.

"The terms “well-written” and “blog” usually don’t coexist locally. But this KU journalism graduate and Wichita native followed the axiom for novice and professional writers alike — write what you know."

Unless you plan on being an unrelenting, enthusiastic shill for who you work for and what you do for a living, this is the dumbest fucking advice in the world.

If you create a blog for the sole purpose of making fun of your job, your employer, and your employer's customers, don't get your panties in a twist when your employer finds out about your blog (as they almost always will) and decides that your continued employment and blogging are not compatible with their corporate strategy and goals.

Ever heard of a "firewall"? It's the thing that protects your PC from getting hacked by the "evil doers".

Bloggers need to have a firewall between the shit they say on their blogs and who they are in real life.

If you don't establish and enforce this firewall of anonymity, there are only 2 outcomes:

1. Your ability to freely express yourself online will be constrained by the fear of real world repercussions such as possible loss of employment, alienation of family, and other unpleasant consequences.

2. You will blatantly flaunt the above precautions, your friends, family and employers WILL find your blog, you WILL be fired, you WILL be denied future opportunities, and you WILL be sorry you every peed in the Internet pool.

If, like me, you view blogging as a creative outlet where you get to say whatever the fuck you want to say because you need to blow off steam, DO NOT follow the advice of Mary Sanchez, local Social Media gurus, or anyone else who uses terms like "Web X.x", "personal branding" or "off the keyboard".

But if you want to turn the mythological "Permanent Record" into a reality and hand it all of your info on a Silver Platter, then by all means, "blog about what you know". I'm sure future employers will be chomping at the bit to hire you when they easily find out that you made derogatory blog posts that you thought were "witty and insightful" about your former employer and their customers.

Because what employer doesn't want it's employees undermining their business and driving away their customers?

Iron Man 2 vs. Whiplash!

Looks like the rumors are true. Iron Man's nemesis in Iron Man 2 will be Mickey Rourke as Whiplash.





Here's hoping they manage to work in some of this zipper-mouth, leather-bondage, Pulp Fiction-Gimp imagery.

I Need Professional Help

I have needs! I'm willing to barter services.

My needs fall in to 2 categories:

HOME NETWORKING

I have a wireless home network that mostly works. In fact, for the very first time, I was able to successfully print a document from my HP mini on the Canon printer hooked up to my upstairs desktop over the wireless network. YAY!

Over the weekend, I was also able to secure my wireless network so my neighbors couldn't piggyback on my wifi signal.

However, I have also taken a step backwards. I can no longer access the internet through my wireless network via my HP netbook. This is a HUGE problem.

Finally, I have a huge, 200 gb hard drive that I salvaged from my old Dell XPS that I have transferred to a Rocketfish hard drive enclosure. It is connected via a USB cable to my desktop. I need to be able to access it over my wireless network from my netbook.

So, to summarize my Home Networking issues:

Need the network to be secure.

Need to be able to access all peripherals from all connected computers.

Need to be able to access all files on all file storage devices from all connected computers.

Need shared access to the internet from all connected computers.

I would also like to be able to easily add new computers to my home network that will share all of the above qualities, but allow me administrator rights to lock out selective rights.

So there's that.

The other category of Help Needed involves this blog.

HTML ERRORS

I've had complaints of my blog crashing my visitors systems. Hell, sometmes it even brings me to a halt. I removed a lot of the overhead, but the problem persists.

One of my Aussie buddies pointed me to W3C Markup Validator. It found 589 errors and 178 warnings in the HTML code for my blog. I suspect this is the culprit. I don't know HTML. I don't know how to clean it up.

I can supply a text file or link to the HTML file. I need someone to CLEAN MY SHIT UP!

These are my needs.

If you are local, I can barter services. If you aren't local, I am open to other barter suggestions.

But I seriously need some professional help. I'm in over my head.

Katie Horner. Srsly?

Dear KCTV5,

This Katie Horner thing is becoming absurd. No, it is light years past absurd!

Tonight I was listening to what the Chairman of The Federal Reserve had to say about the health of our economy on 60 Minutes when your attention whore breaks in to talk about a storm 2 hours north of us and headed east. Not south, not threatening Kansas City, but east. Away from us. No impact to Kansas City whatsoever.

I'm quite certain that people who live north of St. Joseph can get their weather bulletins from whomever the St. Joseph CBS affiliates weather attention whore is.

It is now 8:00. Not a single drop of rain has fallen. Not a single rumble of thunder has been heard. I am enjoying "Three Kings" on AMC to avoid Katie's masturbatory revellrey in the sound of her own voice and her seemingly orgasmic pleasure in forcing everyone to watch her and listen to her when we would rather be doing something else.

She's like some sort of weather dominatrix who takes pleasure in inflicting meteorlogical pain on innocent viewers.

You, as her employer, are enabling her sick addiction.

She needs an interdiction. Only an interdiction on live TV that interrupts one of her interruptions can come close to repairing the damage that she has done to KCTV5.

Yank that self-absorbed, octo-mom off the air and only pre-empt CBS programming when actual Kansas City area residents are in immediate danger.

kthxbai.

My First "I Just Won The Lottery!" Purchases

If I won the lottery...



NEC 43" Curved LCD

"The NEC's new 43-inch curved LCD on sale July, featuring 2880 x 900 pixel resolution, it looks amazing! It will cost you $8,000! More specs: 200 cd/m² brightness, 0.02ms Rapid Response, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, Wide color gamut with 100% coverage of sRGB and 99.3% coverage of Adobe RGB, USB Ports, DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 input connectors."

Star Trek Classic Captain Kirk Chair

"The unbelievable chair measures 41-inches tall x 42-inches wide x 39-inches deep. It weighs about 215 pounds! The working swivel seat with wooden handles, leather seat cover, and armrest controls make this the perfect addition to any collection, display, home theater, or museum! The chair, seat of the chair and arms of the chair are made of wood, the seat is covered in leather. There is an iron base the chair is mounted on for rigidity. Limited edition of 1,701 pieces worldwide."

But with ButtKicker technology!




Harmony® 1100

This will be mounted into the arm rest.

"3.5-inch color touch screen: You’ll be able to see the icons and commands, even in the dark. You’ll have the commands you want, when you want them. And you’ll be able to access all the functions of your devices. Help is even available right on the screen.

RF wireless capability: Lets you control devices that you keep behind closed doors, even those you can’t see. (Requires the Logitech® Harmony® RF Extender, sold separately.)

Customizable icons and controls: You choose the commands you want to see, when you want to see them. Even choose the icons you want to use for each command.

One touch to your entertainment: No more complicated lists of what to turn on or which button to select.

Everyone can select what they want to do—such as “Watch TV”—and your Harmony remote does the rest.

Replaces up to 15 remotes: You won’t waste time digging through a pile of remotes again.

Charged and ready: It’s rechargeable so you won’t be looking for batteries when you want to be watching TV.

Guided online setup: You connect your Harmony remote to your computer and you’re guided through every step.

Live answers to your questions: If you hit a snag, live customer support is ready to help.

World’s largest A/V control database: Your Harmony supports more than 225,000 devices from 5,000 brands, so you know it will work with what you have today and what you’ll add tomorrow."

LG BD390

"Integrated 802.11n Wi-Fi; Netflix, YouTube, and CinemaNow streaming; superfast disc loading; plays music, videos, and pictures off a connected USB drive or over network; Profile 2.0 compatible; onboard decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio; 7.1 analog outputs; 1GB onboard memory."

Panasonic SC-PT760

"It comes with a smooth-running five-disc DVD changer, wireless surround speakers, an integrated, flip-down iPod dock, and upscales video over HDMI up to 1080p"

If I'm reading all of this correctly, I could download internet porn, watch it in HD on a curving 43" screen, hear the faked orgasms in bowel-loosening, bass-rumbling, surround sound, while controlling everything with a high-tech remote from Captain Kirk's Command Chair.

This is pretty much all I ask of life. I'm a low maitnenance kind of guy.

After securing and installing all of the above, I might consider paying some bills, buying my daughter a car and maybe starting a college fund for her.

Thor News

That's right folks, it's time to start geekgasming about one of the next Super Hero movie, "THOR".

First of all, it's being directed by Kenneth Branagh who we all know from his Shakespearean boxoffice BOMBS, so it should have a heavy tone worthy of Norse mythology.

The God of Thunder himself, Thor, will be played by Chris Hemsworth.

Like me, you are probably asking "WHO THE FUCK IS CHRIS HEMSWORTH??"



Sorry. I was using my outside voice for a minute.

Did you see "Star Trek" last month? If you are visiting my blog you probably did. Chris Hemsworth played George Kirk. James Kirk's father.



Thor's brother and nemesis, the trickster god Loki, will be played by Tom Hiddleston.

I don't know jack shit about him, but there is something about his face. I can totally see him as the mischievous and evil Loki.



But by far the most exciting (but still unconfirmed) casting news is the HAWESOME Brian Blessed as Thor's father, Odin!




Expect more news as it becomes available!

Gay Pride Festival

I'll be taking my daughter and her friend to this. By her request.

Because my daughter, her friend and I have friends and family members who are gay and we support their quest for equal rights.

I keep hearing a lot from the Right about "traditional marriage". Some nonsense about "one man, one woman".

Can some of you biblical scholars cite me some (any) biblical references where God or Jesus state this to be the definition of "marriage"?



I'll save you some time and effort. No. You can't. So STFU.

Nothing in the 10 Commandments about "gay" marriage.

Not one, single quote anywhere in The New Testament from Jesus defining marriage as being between "one man and one woman".

Never happened.

Marriage is a civil, legal, construct defined by laws passed by humans.

It can be sanctioned by a religious body if the couple chooses, but it's not a legal requirement. It's just window dressing for people of faith.

Secular laws define marriage and the legal rights and privileges derived thereof.