Too Much Fun

I love Myth Busters! That crew has TOO MUCH FUN. I would love to be on a crew doing things like that. I also like the Discovery show that, step by step, details how ordinary things are made. It is fascinating. I like Bear's survival series also. His twang can get to me, but his tips are far better than Survivorman, who seems doomed to die each episode by his failures, even of his gear. He is always complaining, always failing at surviving, having to be pulled out early, cameras wet, gear broken, or getting trapped by ice breakup.

He's pathetic, really, at surviving or communicating useful information about surviving certain situations, but for some reason, his whining and ineptitude, compared to the well prepared very helpfully informative Bear, are addictive.

Bear is good at survival, knows what he is doing, is extremely informative. Survivorman isn't good at any of those things. However, like I said, his ineptitude at his job, of surviving situations, combined with his inevitable whining and equipment failures, make it a survivorman soap opera and addictive. "What will Survivorman fail at tonight?" I think to myself. And, "Will his camera crew this time, just leave him on the ice and go home?" I have to know. I know Bear will never fail. He's competent. Survivorman is not.

I got tired of Deadliest Catch about middle of the second season. Very tired of it.

But those enthusiastic Myth Busters, I love them. What a job they have!

Oh yuk. Bush wants to send warships to the Black Sea, off Georgia's coast, "for humanitary reasons." This is WW3 starting. We don't send warships for humanitarian reasons. One slight incident, a Russian soldier fires a grenade, anything like that, and we respond, and WW3, in which nobody will win, will begin. Iran will take on with Russia, because they've been sleeping together, disgruntled lovers, for some time. Every other nation will back away from the US, knowing we will be the nuclear fallout zone, and, hoping to survive the nuclear fall out zone. And the end of us and the Soviet Union will likely be simultaneous.

"Bend over. Kiss your ass goodbye." That's a joke us kids used to tell each other, daringly, years and years ago, when the cold war was hot, when the teacher would start the nuclear drill, duck and cover. To us it was a big fat joke. Those duck and cover drills. We were not dumb. We knew our little school desks would not protect us from nuclear bombs.

So we'd say to each other, like I say, daringly, because we were not to use such words as "ass", that, instead of getting under our desks we should bend over and kiss our ass goodbye.

I have a feeling this is also about oil, the pipeline for oil through those countries. Our oil gluttony. Our addiction. We're using more than anybody else in this world put together. Mr. Bush, maybe he thinks he is protecting our way of life. We need to tell him it's ok, to stop, it isn't worth starting a third world war over, that we can cut back, we can use less and yes, that we will pilfer our own country, our resources, rather than cause many deaths throughout the world, or even destroy ourselves to continue overindulging in oil. If we are using that much oil and won't quit or cut back, we need to get it from our own country.

Hey Chris, I deleted your comment. Why, because you haven't read previous posts in which Putin gets his due. Our response is what I'm talking about here. And then there's is what has gone on before, in the Russia sympathizing province, with violence from Georgia itself. It is complicated. Our response, Chris, is what is crucial here, to prevent an escalation into WW3. Putin is trying to tag us in. We need some statesmanship to keep a balance, and no antagonism that will result in WW3. McCain described the situation well in an address. He said this is all over the pipeline. Russia wants to control it. We want access, as do other nations.