HSN knives video

This is my all-time favorite video.


I've watched this dozens of times and it never wears out on me. I keep a copy of it on the network drive at work so I can access it whenever I need a good laugh. The first part is the best. O'Dell at the end is a bit anti-climactic.

"Ow!!!! Aoowhhh that hurt. (pause) Oh that hurt big time."

I find my self using that expression "big time" now and then. I catch myself and I think of this video.

I Shouldn't Be Alive

I watch entirely too much TV. This is primarily a wintertime phenomenon. One show I've been watching lately is called "I Shouldn't be Alive". It's on the Discovery Channel.
I think it's been over for about a month now but I saw all of season 3 except for one episode. This show was on as part of what they called, "Survivor Friday" but I didn't really watch any of the other shows.

Here is the description of the show from the Discovery Channel website.

I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE pushes the limits as survivors of death-defying ordeals relive their experiences at the edge of human endurance — and the moment of truth that kept them alive.

The series examines our most basic instincts while revealing amazing intricacies and profound depths of the human condition. Each one-hour episode explores the very best true stories of survival, focusing on the moral dilemmas, crucial moments, chance events and life-or-death decisions of the survivors. Viewers will feel the power and magnitude of those decisions, and be moved to ask themselves, "What would I have done to survive?"

Some feats of survival come from the world of professional adventurers and extreme sports — men and women who deliberately invite danger — while others find ordinary people caught in terrible ordeals fighting for their lives. But at the heart of each episode, an agonizing moment reveals key choices that must be made to allow the survivors to cheat death and live to tell their story.

Don’t miss I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE, Fridays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

Despite the name of the show, some of the people in some of the stories aren't alive anymore. I think most of the shows though everybody lives...sometimes a little worse for wear.

1 vs 100

I think I judge my game shows by how much I'd like to be a contestant.

1 vs 100 beats Deal or No Deal hands down in my book. I can't understand why anyone even watches Deal. It came on TV before 1 vs. 100 and I could never get interested in it. No matter how hard I try I just don't give a crap what's in the case or if the contestant takes the bankers offer or not. It's very uninteresting to me. Now 1 vs 100 on the other hand there are at least questions to hold your interest. It allows you to become more involved and to play along while your watching. It's sort of like Who Wants to be a Millionaire only if you give a wrong answer you lose everything and also you're competing against a "mob" who gets your accumulated winnings if you're wrong while they answer correctly. Plus it's a little bit like Hollywood Squares (but without all the jokes) because they sometimes put famous people in the mob.

I only saw previews for it once but apparently Penn Jillet from Penn and Teller has a new game show called Identity. It looks interesting. I'm gonna check that out in March when it comes back.

Gift Card Money Grab

My last post reminded me of something I read a while back that also involves the government taking money from private businesses. In this instance a state representative here in Wisconsin plans to introduce a bill which would give the unused value of gift cards to the state treasury. In other words if someone gives you a gift card and you don't use it, the money that the retailer would normally take in profit when the card expired would not be retained by the retailer but instead would be forfeited to the state!

The Latest Liberal Money Grab -Jessica McBride

Side note: I'm adding Jessica McBride' s Blog to my links section down the right side of the page. I read her blog regularly along with that Crush Liberalism blog. You can always count on that Crush Liberalism guy to find examples of and expose the liberal slant in the MSM. Not that it's difficult to see or to find....turn on CNN, MSNBC etc., watch for 5 minutes.

Oil Profits

If you listen closely you can hear our forefathers turning in their graves.

I've read the constitution. It's a document that defines the authorities and duties of our three branches of government. I'm certain that there is nothing in there than even implies that any branch of government has the authority to take profits away from corporations and use them as they see fit.

The profits of the oil companies belong to the oil companies and their shareholders NOT the government.