Golly, I love this cold, wet, dreary weather! Today I'm going to finish reading my book by the fire. *fun*
We knew this day was coming, but someone in England was prosecuted by the RSPCA for allowing their dog to be fat. Can prosecution for being fat be far behind? Wow. Just wow.
So, it's no wonder that upon the 300th anniversary of their union, there are rumblings that Scotland may want to break away from England. No offense to the US folks not from Texas who read my blog, but I can relate to Scotland's urge, as secession has seriously crossed my mind more than once in my adult life, and most of those times have been recent.
Wow, this is like an harmonic convergence: two scrawny overexposed American su
perstars in a catfight. Hollywood and the press these days are so uniformly incestuous that even if there's bad blood between celebrities, knowledge of it rarely filters down to the great unwashed. I think in Angelina vs. Madonna we have the makings of a Joan Crawford/Bette Davis rivalry redux. All I'm saying is either Madge and Ange are going to go thermonuclear or we are being set up for them starring in a re-make of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" In either case, I'm in. I'll just be sitting over here with my popcorn and beer, waiting for the fur to fly.
Good times.
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Can anyone say "too much government involvement in England?" I thought you could.
And Angelina and Madonna? Uma could kick both their asses. At the same time. And did you see the People's Choice Award for female action star went to Hallie Berry? Give me a break. Uma could take her with one hand behind her back!
I'd bet on Uma.
Modern government is a testament to the wisdom of the founders in setting up a system that was supposed to have a limited government. We won't be far behind.
And I used to have a t-shirt that had the word Secede made from Texas flag. A conversation starter, fer sure. Used to wear it to class in college back in the 80s.
And my back yard is now a lake. lovin' this rain. Hope it all freezes and we get a "snow day" next week. Turn this three day weekend into a four or five day. Not likely.
I like to say "I'm from Texas, what country are you from?"
Madonna is a windbag. Ange is more fun to look at now and that must be driving her nuts. Chloe is rockin the drums, cool drummer chick. A
We've had fines and prison sentences for cruelty to animals here, too, mostly for maltreatment of farm animals, but also for pets, and some people really neglect their pets it's a wonder why they keep them in the first place. But I think the next thing here could be (and I'm 30-40% serious) is prosecution for maltreatment of children, i.e. making your kid too fat. I kid you not.
Well, if you want my opinion, Angelina rules and Madonna drools.
If they make a "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" remake, Angelina would kick ass and take names.
Then again, maybe I just don't like Madonna? NAH...that's not it...
Have a good'un - and I hope you get back to my pad sometime!
PS: I do have to agree about Uma and Halle, though - they can leave Madonna in the dust as well. Maybe they should be the charlie's angels, ya know?
I've been contemplating moving down Sidney way myself...I'm over this country. I don't even recognize it anymore.
I can't stop thinking all day about how the South Island of Kiwiland should declare independence from the North Island - they have most of the good and services, but we have power generation and the attractive tourist destinations. You put the idea into my head, Phlegmmy. If I become a famous revolutionary (at nearly 50!!) you will be in my biography.
Scotland SHOULD secede from England! And the Republic of Texas should be the first Nation to recognize their sovereignty.
Prosecuted for being FAT? I'll plead a genetic propensity...it runs in my family, we're all good cooks!
I have to go with gbro on the jolie/madonna acting skills being wayyyy iferior to Davis/Crawford. Now you start talking Streep/Huston, I'm there! Camped out in front of the theater waiting for the doors to open! That I'd pay full price to see and then buy the DVD.
And I also agree with all the others, Uma could kick Angie, Madonna AND Halle's collective butts.
Just my opinion, FWIW.
I don't know why Scotland ever allowed themselves to stay attached to England; they should have quietly rebuilt their forces and broken away as soon as they could. Bonnie Prince Charlie forever!
Same for Texas. We'd have something akin to the 8th largest GDP in the world as a soverign nation. I keep hoping...
and oddly enough, someone this week got on me about Max, my crippled 'special needs' Labrador. He has a spinal cord injury and is a 'front wheel drive' model. Doesn't make him less of a friend and companion to me. He just doesn't fetch as quickly as the other Lab.
Catfight? Feh. I say give them sticks and let them fight it out on pay per view.
Regards,
Rabbit.
rabbit, good on ya for taking care of Max. Did you ask that idiot that made the comment if they had someone who was going to put them down if they ever became front wheel drive only? And when they said no, volunteer to do it?
myron - Yeah, it's hard when it's so entrenched, but like us only moreso, the Brits need to thin out the invasiveness of their government.
Oh, and Uma has it all over Halle. Hall is just acting, whereas Uma is not only bad, but is in fact, Nationwide, long may she wave.
fathairybastard - Yup: yay, Uma. Yup, we're heading that way, with regulations over all sorts of things that are not the government's nor the public's business. What fresh hell.
YAY, cold weather. It's been nice.
A - I love it. After all, we ARE bigger than a lot of countries in the world. Madonna acts embarrassed about her precociousness at previous stages in her life, but she's always that way, at any given moment, she thinks she's arrived at the ultimate state of being and understanding, when she should just shut up occasionally and stop removing doubt. Honestly, Angelina has done some kooky shit, but every interview I've ever seen of her, she seems to make a lot of sense and to be a more well-grounded than just about any Hollywood-type I've ever seen.
I can't wait to hear Chloe rocking the drums - I'll bet she's good at it.
meg - Oh, I've NO doubt that people in all Western nations will soon be prosecuted for making their children fat and for being fat. What a world, eh?
Sudie - for my money , it would be Angelina and Uma - that would be an interesting match-up. Halle is graceful, but she doesn't know the first thing about opening up a real can, a la Uma or Angelina. It's all just pretend with her - I can't buy her in a role as a bad-ass.
g bro - *L* I wasn't saying Scots are fat!
Sorry to offend your tender sensibilities vis a vis the Baby Jane issue. I can see that it's insulting to liken these sorta-thespians to such dramatic heavyweights. Shame on me!
mushy - between the meth-heads and the socialists, it's hard to see much else, isn't it?
meg - We'll all say your revolution started here. :)
hollyb - Damn Skippy!
Yup - prosecuted - Crazyness!
I have recognized the folly of comparing Madge&Ange to Crawford/Davis. Mea Culpa. It's just that Madonna would look so right in that wig & makeup!
rabbit - well, it's been a complicated affair for Scotland as so much was laid waste by the English during the Jacobite thingies (Glorious Revolution, I think they called it - don't laugh if I'm butcering the story). An ancestor of mine (on me mum's side) was a Scot named McCord who fought at Killiecrankie, but all his kin were killed there or at the Battle of Dunkeld, and he came to America to start a new life. I think that was a moment in history when a lot of Scots came to the New World, which must have greatly diminished their ability to resist English rule.
Damn skippy, we need to secede, and damn the torpedoes!
Yup, I'll buy that pay-per-view.
And good for you for keeping Max rolling - if he's got the spirit and will to live, then why not let him? You're a good person!
myron - Yup, what you said, exactly. Who are other people to dictate what pet is worth caring for and which should be euthanized? Callous, nosy, horse-assed ne'er-do-wells?!!!
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