Before I begin, I just want to remind you to stop by this here site tomorrow and join me as I live blog the 2011 Emmys (because when you dedicate nearly 11,000 words to just predicting the show, you might as well right about what in the hell happened). A quick update, though: while I am certain that I will be able to live blog the actual awards show, I'm afraid that it will be just that. This means that there will be no mega-live blog in which I write about not just the Emmys, but also the NFL games being played tomorrow and anything else of note in-between (like I did two years ago) as I had originally hoped for. My afternoon, you see, got pretty booked with other plans over the past few days. So don't be shy! Come by here sometime around 6 p.m./CT, stick around in the comments section, and I'm sure that we'll have a fun time spending the evening offering up opinions and snarky comments on the festivities as it happens.
So with that out of the way, time to get right down to business. Here are my picks for some of the best and most memorable things from the past week that was:
National Anthem of the Week: Jim Cornelison Before the Falcons/Bears NFL Game on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
There's a reason FOX decided to carry this national anthem to a nationwide audience when it happened. Maybe NBC should consider signing this man up to sing the anthem before Super Bowl XLVI. It's certainly better than signing up Christina Aguilera again, or Shakira.
Leaked Photos of the Week: The Ones From the Phones of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis
One has two nude photos of Ms. Johansson's fantastic body. The other one has photos of a seductive Justin Timberlake. With these two and Blake Lively's story from a few months back, I'm afraid that in this rate it's only a matter of time before leaked photos of Betty White are ever revealed.
U.S. Troop of the Week: Dakota Meyer
for receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor on Thursday, the third living recipient to do so and the first Marine ever after saving 36 lives during an enemy ambush in Afghanistan not too long ago. Truly one of the nation's finest men.
Video of the Week: "Reality Hits You Hard, Bro"
Don't ever try to ask the guy to give you a description of the Fast and Furious movies.
Stories of the Week:
- The Actual Story of the Week: U.S. Remembers Tenth Anniversary of 9/11
Better than remembering everything that happened after it, that's for sure.
- The Tiger Woods Saga of '09 Memorial Story of the Week: Man Smuggles 72 Bags of Cocaine in Stomach
If this is indeed real, and not a fake as a few have claimed, than that is one committed drug dealer.
Debate of the Week: Monday's Republican Presidential Debate
When Rick Perry of all people is criticized by his opponents for having policies that are too far left, you really do have to be a little afraid of these crop of Presidential candidates. Speaking of the debate...
Person of the Week: These Tea Party Debate Audience Members
for proving just how awful they really are on the inside. So awful, in fact, that even Pat Robertson would be ashamed, and he believes that a person should divorce a spouse with Alzheimer's disease. On Monday, the eight top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination debated. Outside of seven candidates bashing front-runner Rick Perry and the all-American set (which, in the words of Jon Stewart, looked "like the inside of Betsy Ross' vagina), the other most memorable moment came when the debates moderator, CNN's Wolf Blitzer, was asking health-care related questions to Ron Paul. Blitzer asked Paul a hypothetical question about what society should do in the case of an uninsured 30 year old man, previously in perfect health, who gets into a coma. Because of his libertarian views, Paul obviously took the anti-government approach, saying that they shouldn't interfere and that it shows what freedom is about, mainly "taking risks."
Then, in a follow-up question, Blitzer asked Paul: "Are you saying society should let him die?" In an act of both rationality and humanity, Paul said "no," citing his previous experiences as a doctor. But that's not what some of the audience members thought! I'm not sure whether it was two, or ten, but definitely more than one of those in the room actually said "yes," that this hypothetical 30 year old with the hypothetical coma but without the hypothetical health insurance should hypothetically die, hypothetically. I'm sure Jesus would have loved to be around and hear that!
This, of course, brings up some interesting questions: how serious were these people, identification still unknown, about what they said? Did they say it because they really meant it or because that's what they thought Ron Paul would say, and they just wanted to say it before it to be part of the group? Did they feel remorse or self-loathing after shouting it out or do they believe what they shouted out? Do these people also believe in pro-life and, if so, which of these would overlap? Either way, I think I speak for a bunch of other people when I say for those people to go f*ck themselves, and anyone else who believes in such a selfish, hypocritical and sociopathic way like that (cue people say that's what all conservatives are). May their face get mashed with the pointy flagpole top of an American flag.
(P.S.: And screw those people who applauded when Rick Perry stated that over 300 were sentenced to death in Texas during his time as governor, too! It's as if they keep trying to ruin the reputation of conservatives even more.)
And that's the way it was! Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone! Come back tomorrow for the live blog! I promise it won't suck!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
If you have any opinions on today's post, or if you just have any suggestions or tips for my next blog entry, e-mail me at: mj1599@aol.com. Your e-mails are greatly appreciated.
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