Hey folks, Fred the Tuckpointer here with a quick check in from my sister Mis’ place in North Royalton.  Since my shoulder separation, Sadie decided we should be separate too, at least until I “get my act together” -  whatever that means.  Its not too bad – Mis works third shift down at the clinic, so we barely talk to each other and she gets lots more cable channels than what we get at home.  And her internet’s faster.

So Joel on this site here chimed in and wanted to get my take on Obama blowing the Olympics.   I think its awesome whenever bad things happen to the country, as long as they happen while Obama is president.  Let me explain: we all know that Obama, and everything he stands for is everything our Founding Fathers fought against.  Take the socialist medicine program Barry’s running down the pipe; in the old days, when George Washington was wounded he would call his OWN doctor, not some British appointed court quack to get it patched up.  That’s the way it was, and the way it should be.  So when the insurance companies threaten to raise everyone’s insurance rates, then that means Obama is a failure and should be impeached.  Same deal with Afghanistan – he got us in this mess we’re in over there, and now he can’t make up his mind how many troops to send over.  Whatever he ends up doing, if it doesn’t go well that means America wins in the long run.  Its important that he looks bad, no matter what.

So back to the Olympics…its no coincidence that Chicago, that dirty and corrupt city, was in bed with Obama the whole bid process.  I was rooting so hard for him to get embarrassed, and when they gave the games to Rio, it was the first of many nails into the coffin of his presidency.

And the Noble Peace prize thing…well, I think everyone knows that’s rigged.

In other news, I still can’t move my arm above my shoulder.  I work in the receiving bay at Wal-Mart, so it may be tough to do much of anything, but I can’t afford any more time off.  Maybe I’ll drop by the house on the way to work tomorrow to see if Sadie’s up for a visit.  In the meanwhile, Fred the Tuckpointer signing off.

Hey – at this point, if you aren’t watching the show, then you suck, and you need to be watching it. One of the greatest sub-sub-sub plots of the show (completely inconsequential to ANYTHING going on) is Hurley looking to re-write Empire Strikes Back.

His logic? It’s 1977, and Lucas is going to be looking to make the sequel to Star Wars, and he wants to make sure that we don’t have the lame Ewoks.

Thank you JJ Abrams, and whichever of the writers you hired that wrote that line.

In the episode, Hurley is carrying around a notebook, which, it turns out, is the new manuscript. The LOSTwiki has done all of us fans a solid – and published the pages from the manuscript. You get genius re-writes like the following:

INTERIOR: REBEL BASE — RECOVERY ROOM
Luke sits up in a recovery-room bed, he’s messed up from putting a hurt on the Gundark, but is smiling.

HAN: “Farmboy, that’s two you owe me.”

Han turns as Leia enters the room. He looks at her with a really really big grin.

HAN: “Well your Worshipstress, looks like you managed to keep me around this wasteland for a little while longer.

LEIA: I don’t know where you get your delusions. I only ever liked you because your ship is awesome.

Chewie laughs in his own cool animal way.

HAN: Laugh it up, fuzz ball. You should have seen me and freckles in the south passage. She told me she totally wants to kiss you.

Luke looks over at Leia. She looks at Luke. Then she looks at Han. Then back at Luke.

LEIA: My…! Why, you little stuck up,…half-brained,…funny-looking…
nerd-herder!

HAN (looking at Luke): Who’s funny looking?

With that she leans over and DOES NOT KISS Luke on the lips. Then she high-fives Chewy, leaving everyone in the room slightly dumbstruck.

Just go read the whole thing.

How sick is everyone about hearing how awesome Godzilla Phantom Menace this debate will be? I don’t think any amount of fuckupery or bullying can actually make a Vice Presidential debate interesting. And how many interviews did Katie Couric do with her last week?There was the fuckup one, the walk and talk, the one with McCain and her. Three interviews in a week? Is that common?

Ugh. Look how seriously I’m taking her, THAT’s the weirdest thing.