"Underwater Buses"

A lot of heat has come down on the federal government, about not reacting in time to save the people who were socked by Hurricane Katrina.

However, what about the Mayor and the Governor?

Check out these pictures of buses that just sat there and are now under water and useless.

There were tourists who could not leave, because all the cars were rented. Why on Earth, didn't the mayor or for that matter any state officials use these since they had a mandatory evacuation?

It didn't help that almost no one batted and eye till the President finally told them to get the hell out of there.


There is no reason for these busses to have gone to waste.

"Katrina's Chaos"

When I heard this happened, I honestly had to look up who Kayne West was. I had heard the name, but had no idea who he was. Apparently, he is rapper and I guess a popular one.

From Yahoo News
Comedian Mike Myers was paired with West for a 90-second segment that began with Myers speaking of Katrina's devastation. Then, to Myers' evident surprise, West began a rant by saying, "I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food."



While allowing that "the Red Cross is doing everything they can," West who delivered an emotional outburst at the American Music Awards after he was snubbed for an award declared that government authorities are intentionally dragging their feet on aid to the Gulf Coast. Without getting specific, he added, "They've given them permission to go down and shoot us."

All, I can say is this kind of crap disgusts me. Before, you go off saying Keith hates free speech, let me explain. There is a time and a place. I am sure WEst has the ability to get his views out there. If he doesn't he ought to fire his agent.

What kind of egotistical piece of turd turns a live benefit into their own political soap box? Please. You weren't asked to rant and rave, you were asked to help raise money. For his information National guardsman WERE BEING SHOT AT.

Response may have been slower than needed, but than again I was not there. I am not sure how difficult it was to get into a town where all the bridges were wiped out. I certainly don't see their waiting a justification for burning buildings or rapping innocent women.

Later he stated, "George Bush doesn't care about black people," the camera cut away to comedian Chris Tucker

I honestly, not believe the President doesn't care about black people.

In addition to the heart breaking stories of life lost and seeing the city look like something after the catylism. It makes me sick, hear we are nation trying to help Iraq to be more collapsed, and we look like a bunch of animals torching buildings and raping women. In addition, to surprised the world watching how rocked we have been by a Hurricane.

Osama must be doubled over laughing some place.

"Katinas Wrath"

I have been super busy lately. So, there have been no updates. I am sure since I am such a weather buff, and usually blog about hurricanes people were looking here to see what I wrote. I had lots of long hours at work, so its been rough to blog.


Well, what can you say? They are saying the death toll could be in the thousands. The storm was just insane by hurricane standards. Its rare for Cat 5 to hit, and it was easily one of the worst places in the country for it to hit. Considering New Orleans is below sea level.


What can be done for the soaring Gas prices? To fix the floods?

I really wanted to post a video of the man who lost his wife in the floods, but for the life of me. I could not find it online. CNN has it, up its just random commericals. I am really starting to hate online news sites.


Anyway, if anyone can find it that and post he URL that would be great. Anyone has an interesting stories they saw on the news that would be good too.

Its just insane, how bad it was. The prime of the hurricane season is just starting.

"40 Year-Old Virgin"

I went to see the 40-year old virgin this weekend, and I felt that I saw an instant classic. Almost every joke worked, and it will go down as a highly quotable movie. Its up there with the top comedies of this decade.

Here is my top 5 of 2000's (2000-05) in no real order

Meet the Parents
Starsky and Hutch
Saving Silverman
Wedding Crashers
The 40 Year Old Virgin


If you werent planning on seeing it change your plans. The 40 yearold virgin is one of the funniest movies to come out in quite sometime.

"4 More Years?!?"

According to a high profile general if the new Iraq constitution isn't signed ready soon, and the elections aren't held shorly after that troops could be in Iraq till long after Bush leaves office. Worst case, they will have over 100,000 soliders in Iraq for four more years.

He didn't even imply that they would be totally out of the country. Democrats are urging a total withdrawl from the country. Their counterparts take issue claiming it would have been a defeat if they just pull out now.

Is there any end in sight?


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"Echelon Life Line"

The lastest battle in the Echelon Wal-Mart took place last week. PREIT has a 30-day extention to get their Wal-Mart plan approved. It approved once, than it turned out it wasn't done right so they Mall was set back yet again.

In the mean time the Mall has slipped farther into a coma. Nathans pulled out of the food court. In addittion Fredericks of HOllywood (or was it the other one?) pulled out.

The people that are against the Wal-Mart think they have a better idea. They want an a main street type place. With a place for people to walk and ride bikes with some offices, shops and resturants. Basically, they are trying to be like Collingswood. The didn't mention trying to attract a large amount of homosexuals to compete with Collingswood though.

I don't know if anyone from these protest groups have any business background at all. So, it comes off pretty comical that they tell the company with a proven track record with malls to do with their investment.


Anyway, with Mainstreet, and the Ritz and Eagle shopping centers I don't really see this being a big better plan.

Its very likely that the tug of war will end in an empty mall for many years to come. Perhaps sometime in September the Wal-Mart war will finally come to and end. ITs been over a year since the whole plan frist came to light.

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"AVs Dumb Move"

The Flyers may have made the right moves for free agency, but the AVS must have made the strangest.


They signed Brad May, who used to play for Vancouver. If you recall two years ago, Brad May basically put a bounty on the head of Colorado forward Steve Moore who took out Vancouver star player Mark Naslund. The next game between the two teams Todd Bertuzzi decided he would be the one to make Moore pay. He was a bit overzealous and broke Moore's neck. He was slapped on the wrist by the NHLfor 20 games. Of course it would have been longer (at least I hope) had there been a season. I think the ruling to let him back for opening night is awful.

Season ticket holders are pissed and are not renewing and Colorado is getting flooded with angry emails. I don't blame them. May is basically taking Moore's roster spot. Not only that May was named in a suit that Moore (who likely will never play hockey again) in a suit. This on top of losing the best player in the world.


It just makes no sense to me. I mean players like May are a dime a dozen.

"Phillies Still Fighting"

With the win last night its hard to buy into this, but the Phillies are only 2.5 games out of the wild card. They very easily could win it and make it into the post-season. I don't actually think this will happen, and most people likely don't. However, its amazing that they could still mathmatically make it.

Despite still being in the running, the fans are still generally very negative towards this team. In fact I can't think of a philly team that is as much hated as this one. People detest the owners and even most of the players.

So, it is still possible that the Phillies could make it into the post season. Does anyone think people would actually care if they did?

"Moving Agents"

Here is a good site to check out and keep track of all the player moves in the NHL.

back soon...

I was out of town for a few days, and pretty busy all weekend. Will be blogging sometime tomorrow. Check back. Thanks folks.

....a few years too late.

FORSBERG-MANIA



One of the 4 teams in Philly now has the best player in the sport wearing their jersey. Check out Yahoo! sports. Also, tune into comcast tomorrow or go to their webpage to get your first peak at Peter in a FLyers jersey.

If JR's future is still in the air. Be sure that they will be hammered with questions about him.

"Forsberg's Pain"

So, much has said about JR's injuries. Now im not going to bash Forsberg again since I am happy he is now a Flyer.


However, he has had his share of injuries. I doubt he will play 82 games. In fact when he played over seas last season. He had a knee injury and a nasty concussion. This came on the heels of him telling fans he would never return to the NHL, and wants to raise his kids in his native Sweden.

So does he really want to even play in the NHL? Is his body too torn up to return to form? Is it at all possible to keep him and JR? If so how so?

Flyers will have a press conferance 10 am Thursday morning.

So many casual fans will be turned off by this move. Most casual fans honestly have very little idea who Forsberg is. Liza actually vowed never to go to a Flyers game again. I love Forsberg, but I don't know if he wil reach casual fans that the Flyers might be looking for after pissing off their fans during the lockout.

....the trade

FLYERS INK FOR


For the more than a decade Flyers fans have wondered all along what it would have been like if the Flyers had kept Peter Forsberg instead of shipping him off for Eric "The Big E" Lindros. Who turned out to be nothing but a crybaby and never panned out to be what the superstar he said he would be when he got drafted and refused to play for Quebec.


I was really surprised when I saw (through a text message from a friend) that the Flyers had inked who you could consider to be the best player in the NHL or perhaps even in the world. My joy was soon deflated after I realized Roenick was going to be shipped off to a soon to be determined team in order to make room under the cap.

The signing of Peter puts the Flyers $3 million over the cap. At first the rumor was that it was a done deal and the deloved chatty centerman Roenick was shipped to the LA Kings for a bag of pucks. This robbed my of any job that Forsberg signing with the Flyers could have given me.

Don't get me wrong Forsberg is a much better player than Roenick. But, I am just really sad to have to see JR go. He signed here to win us a cup, and he won't get that chance now. On top of that if it is true and he does go to LA that is easily the worst hockey city in the NHL. The fans are apathetic and don't know anything about the game.

Perhaps, Roenick's mouth and rocky relationship with Coach Ken Hitchcock didn't help matters. An hour after I heard he was a King. I heard it wasn't a done deal, but they Flyers were still over 3 millon as far as their cap goes.

So, I got the new roster out and tried to figure out where they could trim some fat. So they could keep JR. The best I could come up with is to ship Sami Kappanen. I just don't see how they can do this body wise, and money wise.

Close to 7pm JR called 610 and said this: ``The Flyers have a better chance of winning the Stanley Cup with Peter Forsberg than with Jeremy Roenick,''


20 minutes later Flyer big-wig Ron Ryan said they may not trade him. Although he didnt really give a reason. I don't see howt his could happen, and JR was clearly blind-sided by the news that would likely result in him going some place else.

The story keeps changing, and sadly enough I am going on a business trip for two days and will be unable to blog or comment. Its going to drive me nuts. I would love for the hockey fan readers to comment on here and get some back and forth debates.

Actually, its really hard for me since JR is one of my all time fav. players to play the game. I know deep down in my hockey knowledge that they are a better team with PEter. I love Forsberg, and always wanted him on my team. Hell, even before Peter I thought the Flyers would be a front runner for the cup.

Picturing Forsberg with Gagne, Richards, Sharp or Carter could be a dream come true. Just stings to love the heart and soul of team to get it.

"Flyers Beef Up Defense"

The Flyers are simply not fulling around when it comes for making a push for the cup in 2006. The team lost a few d-man too retirement. Today, the Flyers signed Derian Hatcher,33 who played for coach Hitchcock in Dallas. Who also once broke JRs jaw. I have been a fan of Derain since the days that he lived in his brother Kevin's shadow. Now, no one remembers Kevin, and Derain is one of the best D-man in the league.


In addition the Flyers added equally as big (litterally Hatcher and him are 6-5) MikeRathje, 31, has spent his entire career with the Sharks since being drafted third overall by San Jose in 1992. How odd will it be to see him out his blue jersey?

In addittion to all this. THe Flyers brought back longtime staple Chris "Bundy" THerein.
Anyone like or dislike these moves?

"Flyers Beef Up Defense"

The Flyers are simply not fulling around when it comes for making a push for the cup in 2006. The team lost a few d-man too retirement. Today, the Flyers signed Derian Hatcher,33 who played for coach Hitchcock in Dallas. Who also once broke JRs jaw. I have been a fan of Derain since the days that he lived in his brother Kevin's shadow. Now, no one remembers Kevin, and Derain is one of the best D-man in the league.


In addition the Flyers added equally as big (litterally Hatcher and him are 6-5) MikeRathje, 31, has spent his entire career with the Sharks since being drafted third overall by San Jose in 1992. How odd will it be to see him out his blue jersey?

In addittion to all this. THe Flyers brought back longtime staple Chris "Bundy" THerein.
Anyone like or dislike these moves?

"Good-Bye

Bob Goodenow the head of the NHLPA and one of the main reasons the 2004-05 season never came quit his job Friday. Easily, one of the best days in NHL history. Good-bye you nut case.

ESPN article.

"100?!?!"

Most people have us nailed down for 96 or 97 degrees tomorrow. I think we have a real shot of hitting 100 at least in some areas. Down south they are already pegged for it. The heat index is 100-110 for tomorrow.


I will give anyone 20 bucks if they litterally try to fry and egg on the street, succed and send me pictures. Of course you have a deadline till tuesday at midnight. It doesnt count if the egg doesnt fry. Try it on the street or a parking lot. Might get her cooking up good.

Read here from your air conditioned office at home about the un-godly heat.

Summer Movie Files 205: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Okay, I really don't like it when movies are remade of films, that I think still stand up today. It really annoys me.


However, since TIm Burton is a great director. I was willing to see this. Burton went off the deep end in the late 90's and adpated The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Sadly, though and oddly, he went against every Burton instict and Hollywoodized the story. Adding an annoying kid for no reason, made the hero a dectieve not a teacher who accidentally stumbles across the legend, and making just an awful movie. On top of that he remade The Planet of the Apes, resulting in an unwachable mess that put me to sleep all 3 times. I attempted to watch it.

Thankfully, Burton returned to form with Big Fish. So, I was ready to forgive him.


Anyway, Im told Burton didn't want to remake the movie, but wanted to adapt the book better. Burton's style certainly gels good with the borderline creepy story of a grown man being sadistic to a bunch of brats.

Although Johnny Depp, looks a bit too much like Micheal Jackson playing the role. He is pretty good as Willie Wonka. The difference between him and Gene Wilder is Depp's verision has a little less heart. He is more of a social outcast and bitter than Wilder's Wonka who was more or less a goofball who had his heart in the right place, but was missing a few buttons.

The additions to the story are what you would expect from Burton. Fleshing out his childhood, and showing that Wonka was missunderstood.

Visually the film is breath taking and times looks like a moving painting. Burton has the ablitiy to make his films almost hyponotic combined with the genius music of Danny Elfman. I saw this movie on an IMAX theater which made it that much better.

The music is updated, and the lessons to the kids are made to be more meaningful in todays society. The ommpa-Lommpas are played by the same guy. The music is enteraining, but instead of looking like freaky clowns he looks like a drug pusher at times.

I could debate which film is better, I might still have to go with the first one.

"There's Something About Sidney"

Sidney Crosby's playing the lottery just as much as the teams are. THe bigger the market the bigger the bucks.

But since normally the worst teams in the NHL (rightfully so) get first dips a lot of the new young talent is on small market team. Imagine if some of the young marketable talent were on teams that got more attention. Columbus's Rick Nash, Calgary's Jarome Iginla, or even Atlanta's Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk. Not to mention no one can pronounce Iglinla's name, and Heatley's carrer was darkened by an auto crash with him behind the wheel ending in the death of a teamate.

Still have the gut feeling he will be a Ranger. Because well I never thought I would say it, but the Rangers have got a lot of balls.


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