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day of family
Feb. 21st, 2011 12:53 pmNice to see that our new budget-conscious House Of Reps is trying to kill funding for Planned Parenthood and PBS, but is determined to keep millions of your taxpayer dollars going to NASCAR. The sponsor of a bill that would have ended the Pentagon's sponsorship of Ryan Newman's NASCAR racing has even recieved death threats. Stay classy, guys!!
Some questions:
1. Shouldn't the super-patriotic I Love America NASCAR be giving ad space to the US Army free of charge? It's not like they need the money. They could write it off on their taxes as public service announcements or something.
2. Should Ryan Newman have to at least pass basic training if he's going to parade around with "US Army" on his shirt?
3. Death threats. Really? That's how you want to handle that?
Today is Family Day in Ontario, which is basically designed to give everybody a mental health break right when winter is on your last nerve. Friday and Saturday it warmed up quite a bit, though we never got the rain they were promising. Yesterday it cooled back down and started to snow again. Today there isn't much on the agenda; I need to do a little more carpentry and try to get ahead of the curve on Mr. Kitty updates. We might need to get some more milk, which is a trick as all the stores are closed.
I did pick up something kind of awesome out in the sticks on Saturday that I need to post a photo of, and there's a new Zero Fighter page up that I drew and inked and scanned and then decided stunk, and so I redrew it and rescanned it and am more pleased with. Also I wrote a movie review for the CPF site and got it off to Matt, and there's another one in the pipe I need to finish for Collection DX.
I've been reprinting old Anime Jump columns as reviews on Let's Anime and it's working out pretty well so far; the material is good and it ought to be out there for people to read, and it gives me a chance to go back in and rework some of the pieces. I mean, some of those things are five, six, seven, eight years old, and they could use a little streamlining, a little clarification in some areas. I should have a all new Let's Anime in a week or so though. Got one in the works that's kinda cool, so stay tuned.
Some questions:
1. Shouldn't the super-patriotic I Love America NASCAR be giving ad space to the US Army free of charge? It's not like they need the money. They could write it off on their taxes as public service announcements or something.
2. Should Ryan Newman have to at least pass basic training if he's going to parade around with "US Army" on his shirt?
3. Death threats. Really? That's how you want to handle that?
Today is Family Day in Ontario, which is basically designed to give everybody a mental health break right when winter is on your last nerve. Friday and Saturday it warmed up quite a bit, though we never got the rain they were promising. Yesterday it cooled back down and started to snow again. Today there isn't much on the agenda; I need to do a little more carpentry and try to get ahead of the curve on Mr. Kitty updates. We might need to get some more milk, which is a trick as all the stores are closed.
I did pick up something kind of awesome out in the sticks on Saturday that I need to post a photo of, and there's a new Zero Fighter page up that I drew and inked and scanned and then decided stunk, and so I redrew it and rescanned it and am more pleased with. Also I wrote a movie review for the CPF site and got it off to Matt, and there's another one in the pipe I need to finish for Collection DX.
I've been reprinting old Anime Jump columns as reviews on Let's Anime and it's working out pretty well so far; the material is good and it ought to be out there for people to read, and it gives me a chance to go back in and rework some of the pieces. I mean, some of those things are five, six, seven, eight years old, and they could use a little streamlining, a little clarification in some areas. I should have a all new Let's Anime in a week or so though. Got one in the works that's kinda cool, so stay tuned.
