Aloha Daze

Aloha 2008

As 2008 becomes but a memory, here’s to hoping to a bright and wonderful 2009.

Happy New Year everyone. Have fun out there, but keep it safe.

Aloha!

RLR

Oahu Power Outtage

A brief electrical storm was all it took to knock the power out across the Hawaiian island of Oahu tonight. (I’m posting from remaining battery life in my laptop.)

This probably wouldn’t receive any sort of national attention. Hey, it’s just that 50th state. Nevermind them.

Except…

oops… Obama is still on the island.

Think it’ll make national news now?

I’ll try and make any updates from PDA or via Qik video entries. Otherwise, we’re all OFFline on the island.

RLR

Obama Coins

Obama Coins

Nothing like having a man – that hasn’t served a single second as the President of the United States – compared to George Washington and John Kennedy.

What are these people thinking? Obama hasn’t done anything yet. Can we at least wait until he is in office? Is it too much to ask to start advertising these coins on, say, January 21, 2009 – the day after his coronation?

Unless… perhaps the weasels that are trying to sell us this crap have a great fear.

The fear that Barry O is not only not going to be All That, but that he’s actually going to fall flat on his face?

Honestly, I don’t see how Barry can win. If he gets in office, and doesn’t satisfy the nuts on the far left (no more war, close gitmo, and the introduction of a nationalized socialist system), then they’ll hound him for the next four years. If he does try and satisfy those nuts, he’s going to fail, because he’s been put upon a pedestal. A throne from which to command his legions. But to the extent he’s claiming [or WAS] of the Changes he’ll make… he just can’t do it.

Don’t think the loons on the left have him walking on water? Perhaps you should look at that coin collection yourself. Heck, buy yourself a copy. All priase the Democratic Messiah!

Gimme a friggin’ break.

RLR

ShoeGun

I guess a game where you try to shoot the President of the United States would be taboo… unless it’s shoes. SockAndAwe.com:

A shoe-throwing incident at an Iraqi news conference with George W. Bush has inspired an Internet game where the player hurls footwear at a moving target of the U.S. president.

The game, which has been circulated by email, gives players 30 seconds to try to hit Bush with a brown shoe as many times as possible, with the score appearing in the top left hand corner of the screen.

RLR

Growing Up Obama

Feel like your children aren’t getting enough knowledge of the political system? Well, they should be schooled in the ways of politics! And no better way than Obama’s inauguration by way of Nickelodeon:

Nickelodeon TV, the children’s’ network, is getting ready to cover its first presidential inauguration.

Young reporters Lily Collins, rocker Phil Collins’ daughter, and J.J. (Nick would not release his last name) will be in Washington on Jan. 20 to show Barack Obama’s inauguration from a pint-sized perspective.

You can’t make this stuff up. Although, I wish I were:

The station’s young viewers are particularly interested in the process because Barack and Michelle Obama’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, are squarely in Nick’s demographic…

It’s important to follow The One through all important times… starting young!

I say, turn off the television, and introduce your kids to the Constitution of the United States… before you can’t find a copy of it anymore. (Barry O hasn’t read it yet… but he’s ready with a red pen to make corrections that that crappy piece of paper. I mean, Conservatism? Christian values? A free market system? What dribble, right Barry?)

RLR

A Day For Barry

What are you doing in November? Why, taking another holiday!

MARION, Ala. – In central Alabama’s Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President’s Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Veterans Day. In 2009, they’ll get one more: “Barack Obama Day.”

Well, ain’t that just swell.

RLR

Pepper Up

I’ve been trying to get onto Dr. Pepper’s website all day to get a coupon for a free 20 oz. Dr. Pepper. This is Dr. Pepper’s marketing trick to get you try their drink. This stems from a March 2008 statement from Dr. Pepper that they would give everyone in America a free Dr. Pepper if Guns n’ Roses would release their album “Chinese Democracy” before the end of 2008.

The album has been in a sort of limbo for years, it seems. Actually, about 17 years.

Yet today, November 23, 2008, the album is coming out, and Dr. Pepper is honoring their pledge. Mostly.

The Dr. Pepper site has been down. And up. Then down. The link was at one web address… then it was down… then it was at a different address. Dr. Pepper had a nice animation on their main page. Then they didn’t.

In short, DrPepper.com is having a fit with this promotion. Not really a surprise. Everyone can have a free drink, but you have to request it within a 24 hour window. And there’s about four hours left now. (I’d be more specific, but I can’t get to their website to make note of how much time is left.)

Somewhere behind the scenes at DrPepper.com there is a very unhappy IT team… and a webmaster working on updating their resume.

RLR

VI Day

The war in Iraq is over. We won!

Because we said so.

RLR

Declare What Others Fear

Be polictically incorrect? Me?

You bet.

Victory in Iraq Day – Saturday, November 22, 2008.

RLR

Michael Crichton

It is my sad duty to report that Michael Crichton has died at the young age of 66.

I’ve been a very, very big fan of Crichton for years after my dad introduced me to the author in the years before “Jurassic Park” was a movie. After reading “Park,” I went on to find and read every novel that Crichton had ever written. I regret that I haven’t made the time to read the last couple of his novels – “State of Fear” and “Next.” Certainly that is something I need to correct.

For more on the life of the man with many talents, visit the Michael Crichton website [which seems to be currently down] at MichaelCrichton.net, or the WikiPedia entry.

Thanks for the great stories, Michael. You’ll be missed.

RLR