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Think you know the Brady family?

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:29:02 AM
 Brady Bunch Trivia! I scored 260 points for getting 100% correct on this quiz.  How do you stack up?

I swear if any of those kids had gone down to injury, I could have come off the bench to fill in.  I am the seventh Brady child!
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Maybe the Left should reconsider their position on Pro-Choice?

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:38:35 AM
Maybe if the Democrats weren't so focused on pushing their abortion agenda, this wouldn't be so much of an issue. 

It's interesting to think that if current trends continue, California will be a Red State by 2020. 

Of course, if the Left continues to try and get voting rights for illegal aliens, they might be able to make up some lost ground..
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Quite possibly the coolest video ever made!

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:19:41 AM
I'm not a big Radiohead fan, but this video for Creep is the coolest thing i have seen in a looooooooooooong time..
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The Incredible Shrinking Man

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:42:51 AM
I stepped on the scale the other day, and was horrified to see the display staring back at me.  It's a nice scale, digital, gives you body fat percent, and water content, all in a few seconds.  It's fairly new, so I'm confident the numbers glaring at me couldn't be wrong.

So I stepped off, turned it off, then on again.

I took a deep breath, and got back on it.

Same result.  How could this have happened?  How could that damn number have climbed so high?

I'm an active guy, have been all my life.  I played sports all thru my youth, in high school, and even ran on the Track team in college at Arizona State.  After graduating I continued to go to the gym, played basketball all the time, football on the weekends, hiked, camped, snowshoed.  I did it all.  I was one of those guys who could eat anything, and never gained weight.

Seems it's caught up to me finally. 

Just to make sure, I stepped on the scale a third time after taking a quick pee.  Perhaps that would take the last 20 years of an increasingly sedentary life off my waistline.  Surprise, surprise, it didn't.

So I took a long hard look in the mirror, and decided to make some changes.  For my health.  For my wife.  For my beautiful daughter.

I went to Amazon, and ordered Bill Phillips' Body for Life book and workout guide.  My plan is to take a pic every other day with the digital camera to record my success, and then post those pics here when I figure out how to do it.  The program takes 12 weeks, and I am hoping my books get here in time to start at the beginning of September.

My goal is to get under 200 in the initial 12 weeks of the program, and try to get back to 185-190 by New Years.  It's a far cry from my college day race weight of 165, but hey, I'm not 19 anymore, right?

Keep your fingers crossed, and wish me well..
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Help me out on 9/11?

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:16:38 AM
I was on the phone with my brother Herb in Phoenix today, catching up and chewing the fat.  His birthday is coming up on September 8 (I think he'll be 163 this year-he looks pretty good for an old guy!), and I asked him if he was doing anything special for his day.  He told me about one of his friends who goes to a highway overpass on 9/11 with a large flag, and spends the day there.

I want to do the same thing in Denver.  I'm thinking one of the bridges over I-25 down by DU.  I need a few volunteers to help me out-if we just get a few folks, we could do rush hour in the morning, and then do it again for the drive home.  Anyone want to help out?  I e mailed Jeff Goldstein and he said to keep him posted, and he might do a segment on his brand spankin new fancy TV program.

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I'm just sayin'..

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:09:24 AM
Watching the recent Connecticut primary win of Ned Lamont made me consider this little tidbit.  Stick with me, and it will all make sense in a minute or two, ok?

There is a segment of the population that believes that Gore/Lieberman won the 2000 election, and therefore the "real" Pres/VP of the United States.

Let's assume for a few minutes those people are correct (I'm not responsible for buying you a new flat screen if you just spewed coffee all over your monitor, by the way).

So 2004 rolls around, and the incumbents usually win, so let's again assume Gore/Lieberman are re-elected.  (Reread the above coffee-spewing disclaimer above).

So that brings us to the present day-Would it be a stretch to assume the VP (Lieberman, for those of you from Tucson) would be gearing up for a 2008 Presidential run?

Yet the Party that wanted Lieberman to be the #2 in Government six years ago, now wants nothing to do with the guy who would be their nominee for President.  All because of the far-Left "nutroots" and Liebermans support for the Iraq War.

Now, I'm no big fan of Lieberman-after all, he votes pretty far to the left about 90% of the time, but he does remind me of how politics used to be back in the day.  A time when you could "agree to disagree", but still support the ideals of your own Party, while supporting the greater good of the Country.

It will be interesting to see what happens in November.  My guess is Joe stays in the Senate as an Independant, but his voting record starts to move more towards the Center.
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Try not to point and laugh..

Posted by Madeline's Dad on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:56:42 AM
Well, I finally did it.  After sitting in my basement, reading other peoples blogs, arguing with my friends via e mail, and leaving comments here and there, I decided to join the blogosphere.  I wish I could say I was as creative as Jeff over at Protein Wisdom, or as quick with breaking stories as Michelle Malkin, or have great comments like the ones at Dont Hire Deb.  I won't make those claims just yet.  I will promise to give some different viewpoints, interesting ideas, a healthy dose of sarcasm, and a freakish ability to remember lots of useless Pop Culture trivia. 

So check in from time to time, leave some comments, and let me know what you think!
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