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Tiger’s victims – really??

There has been whacked out part of the whole Tiger Woods and now the Jesse James adultery stories that just drives me crazy. It seems the mistress’ claim they are victims in the affairs and in Wood’s case some of the women did interviews and cried about being betrayed by the men they slept with and had an affair. Hogwash, the only real victim are the women the men are married to.

This Huffington Post article is an example of the ridiculous celebrity crap we see in the news today:

Joslyn James, the busty porn star who says she was twice impregnated by Tiger Woods, spoke out Monday afternoon following the golfer’s first live press conference since his massive sex scandal was paraded before the public.

The adult actress and attorney Gloria Allred, who has also represented a host of other prominent women, criticized Woods for not apologizing to his former lovers. “He said that he’s being more respectful to the fans, and that’s good; but how about being more respectful top the women that he’s hurt,” Allred said.

Joslyn James: I Want To Talk To Tiger Woods’ Wife

Joslyn James and the other women involved with Tiger or Jesse James are utter morons.

They have to be not to know that the men were married and sleeping with them was not a good thing to do. To claim to be betrayed or a victim just shows the women’s own stupidity.

If either man promised anything to these women then the women share in the lies and went into these affairs knowing that the men are liars and so they deserve nothing – no apologies nothing. If anything they should apologize to the wives for enabling their husband’s cheating and keeping it a secret.

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From my film vault

I was doing some spring cleaning this weekend. One box had a VHS tape that had a video transfer of a couple of old Super 8 movies I did more than 20 years ago. One I did for fun in 1983 and the other was my final project for a film production class I had in college back in 1990. I replaced the titled cards, sprinkled in some sound effects, added some royalty free music, and uploaded them to my YouTube Channel.

The video transfers are bad. It looks like the place where I had it done just pointed a video camera at a screen while they projected the movie so there is a lot of jitter and the title cards are pretty much unreadable. The picture quality is also poor.

I was able to fix some not so great editing I did on the 2nd the film. If I remember I was crushed for time so I did the edits quickly without making sure the pacing was right so one scene would run too long before a cut to another where the actor was standing around before I said action. Editing it digitally helped tighten those edits so the pacing looks better today.

The Pepsi Chaser (1983)

The Guide (1990)

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Eat better with fresh food

On Friday, March 26th, ABC broadcast “Jamie Oliver Food Revolution”. It is a show where British chef Jamie Oliver tries to change the eating habits and ideas of the people of Huntington WV which had been labeled the most unhealthy city in the US. The primary villain in this drama is processed food.

Processed food, also known as “convenience foods” are those items that are either frozen, canned, or boxed and require little to no preparation time. If you didn’t have to do much to cook the food then it is a processed food.

What is wrong with processed food? Except for the time saving – everything.

Not all convenience foods are created equal. Most convenience foods on the market today are laden with saturated fats, sodium and sugar and provide little to no nutritional value. Even foods touted as fat free or low fat are usually poor alternatives to an already low-nutritional value food such as fat free ice cream and olestra-laden potato chips.

Convenience Foods: A quick and healthy guide for those on the go

Due to some personal health issues I wanted to eat better so I decided to cut down on fat. I also wanted something easy to fix so I naturally looked at processed food.

The one thing I noticed is the sodium content of those foods were off the chart. A well known “healthy” version of a TV dinner had more salt in it than a Big Mac although the fat content was lower.

It is much harder to avoid the huge amounts of salt than it is the fat in processed food.

The hard truth is if you really want to eat healthy it must be freshly made by you in the kitchen where the fat, sugar, and salt can be strictly controlled. There is no short cut right now.

A side benefit is that the cost of the ingredients of freshly made food combined can be cheaper than the processed food one is replacing.

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Health care reform passed – This is just the start

I have HCR hangover and we still have another bar to hit. The Stupak agreement is another example of Christian privilege that violates my religious rights and a woman’s right to her body. I hope that the price was enough and that we keep working on shaping the reform into what it should be including a viable Public Option that ends the monopoly practices of the health insurance industry.

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Weekend Ear Candy – In the air tonight – Phil Collins

It’s late one summer evening and I’m lying in a lean-to tent during a camp out weekend with my Scout troop back in 1982 I think. I am alone in the tent since I was so “popular” every one wanted to bunk with me. My only real friend was my small transistor radio. And a storm was moving toward the camp.

The sky flashed with lightening and low rumbles of thunder shook the ground as the storm drew closer.

I HATED thunderstorms so I turned on the radio and laid it on my ear to muffle the storm. “In the air tonight” came on and at just the time it seemed to sync with the storm noise and actually made it more enjoyable – it added a freaky twist to the song and the storm. Now when I hear the song it transfers back to that time and place.

In the air tonight – Phil Collins

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