Multiply 365 Day 116 - TITIT #11 Reality bites

I'll try not to be distracted this evening, but with a game 7 going on, chances are I will be at some point. Here is hoping I perservere and that the Penguins win (not necessarily in that order). But I have some shit on my chest this evening so a TITIT-ing we will go.

Last night was the most recent edition of "Fat Camp". Promos ran all week about how this week someone would quit the ranch for the first time. I can't say I watched the show, I opted for sleep instead, but I did get a quick recap online this morning before heading out to work. Now I argued previously that, unlike what the promos stated, plenty of people have opted to leave this season. Sure their choices involved weigh ins and then deciding between a few people before someone would do the noble "fall on my fat for the greater good" routine in volunteering to leave. But this week one of the contestants had to leave for "personal reasons" even before the weigh in. That may have been unique in the show's history, but the notion that it was the first time someone quit most certainly wasn't. In fact the show this year might be better off being called "The Biggest Quitter" than anything else. Oh, and lest we thing a trend didn't continue, the person who was voted out again managed to somehow gain weight at fat camp, only the third time in the last 6 episodes she had managed to bulk up rather than down. Do they not vet these contestants? Or are the trainers just that bad? Because with results like these, we all know what we call it around here; government work.

In something that will mean nothing to anyone outside this region but needs to be said anyway, whoever decided on the ads that Mark Flaherty is running in his bid to be county executive of Allegheny County needs to be fired immediately. Mark Flaherty does have a decent resume, including a stint as county controller. But during the ads they talk about how as controller he conducted audits of different agencies to better serve the fine people of Allegheny County. Included in those is his auditing of the Port Authority, Pittsburgh's mass transit agency. I am sorry, but given fare increases and service reductions by PAT and constantly running to Harrisburg, cap in hand, to complain how broke they were, the last thing a candidate running for office needs to do is say, well hey, I audited them. That too, would appear to be government work. Perhaps Flaherty could call a press conference where he kicks puppies also, I am sure that polls very well.

President Obama has released his birth certificate to the media. I am not sure what to make of this. On one hand, I never questioned his citizenship, if that story ever had legs beyond a fringe movement, either Hillary Clinton or John McCain would have used it in 2008. But by the same token, if there is one thing we know it is that is there is no appeasing moonbats, so by releasing the birth certificate, we can expect a round of "It's a forgery" nonsense because that is just what moonbats do. I am sure Jerome Corsi is already typing up the taking points.

I am hating being a football fan these days. Don't get me wrong, I love to watch the game and as readers know, I more than enjoy having a fantasy football team or two each season, but when it comes to the whole potential NFL lockout I really have no sympathy for either the players or the owners. Sure I would hate to have year without football, but I just can't garner any sort of concern for either side in this debacle.

Note to everyone, dumpster diving in Oakland begins in the next week or so. The college kids are moving out again and will most certainly be too lazy to pack anything up, which means lots of potential treasure will be curbside over the next couple of weeks. Anyone who knows me knows that the only thing better than stuff is free stuff.

I have an admission to make. While most everything I write on the page here is honest (I don't recall lying, but am to lazy to do the legwork that is required to fact check about a decade worth of blogging material) the reader doesn 't get everything. Much like the Supreme Court can't define pornography (they just know it when they see it) I can't tell you the reader where the line is between that which I should and shouldn't tell, I just know it when I see it. Maybe at a later date I will extrapolate what it is I am talking about now, but suffice it to say that as I write this, there are things that are going on that I wish not to disclose. We will call them trade secrets and move on.

NBC is premiering another reality show called "The Voice" this evening. The premise of the show is that 4 singers build teams from a slew of contestants, people that they will apparently coach or something. The stipulation is that, when the contestants first come on the stage, the singers/judges will have their backs to the stage and judge the contestants solely on their voice. Is there a more shallow concept for a show running today? Well okay, Kardashians aside, the notion that if one of the judges looks at a contestant and is all, "I want nothing to do with that Quasimodo looking person on the stage" and this is deemed as a good idea, speaks volumes of how shallow of a people we have become.

Okay, ranting done, because I need to save some material for a later date and the hockey game is still on so I am still officially distracted.