Headed to the Husker State

Mac G will be headed back this weekend to see the fam in the Husker State. I will be on the prowl for some Big 12 poon at the Husker/Iowa State game.

Check out this link. It turns out JJ Reddick's brother has been threatening his ex girlfriend by text messages and phone calls. Another reason to hate Dook.

Oh one more Link. My Favorite new website thanks to my boy, WCK from 100% Injury Rate.
A Blog to keep you up to date on stripper news. EXCELLENT!

Sorry for the lack of posts. I have tuns more saved but thought I would ride the Aussie Bikini Wave for a few days. MMMMM GOOD! Happy Friday Fockers.

Have a grrrrrrrrrrrreat weekend.
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Best Guinness Record of ALL TIME

Breaking Guinness records are just dumb, specifically the large group ones.

Well, Australia's latest record setting performance suddenly has changed my mind and it should go down in history as the best Guinness group record of all time. It even blows away the entertainment value of the funny Simpson fattest town episode too.

Over one thousand women in bikinis gathered on Bondi Beach in Sydney on Wednesday in an attempt to win a spot in the Guinness World Book of Records. They were a mixture of models and local volunteers, and the number exceeded that which organizers had hoped for.

Many wore matching bikinis as they gathered to pose for the world's biggest swimsuit shoot. A total of 1,010 women smashed the previous record of 300.

The shoot will appear in the January issue of Cosmopolitan, on sale Monday December 3, and will also feature in the next edition of the Guinness World Records book, out in September 2008.

Do you wanna read the understatement of 2007? It is not even close.

Guinness World Records representative, Chris Sheedy said the shoot was ''one of the more spectacular world records'' he had been invited to adjudicate.

NO WAY!

Checking out 1000 foreign ladies in 2 piece swim suits on a beach SURELY topples the judging experience at the upcoming Guinness record breaking events scheduled in the US for Marbles, Finger Painting, and largest Kazoo band.

Maybe Andrew Bogut was on to something about bashing US culture. And their summer is just beginning.

I would rather be down under too.

Most of the 1010 ladies did not even know what the record was they were trying to beat.

It is OK, you look hot.

Check out the video and enjoy the pictures.
UPDATE:SI Link to a Photo Gallery of the Event





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Frisbee is not Just for Stoners

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Polly Want a Cartoon?

No political rants needed as these solid Cartoons depict my mood quite well.







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Does Your Roommate Suck?

The Notorious DEK has been rolling lately with some great finds and his latest, My Roommate is Such a Dick is a Bookmark keeper. It details bad roommate stories in letter form, along with funny pictures. HILARIOUS.

Everyone has good stories of an awful roommate. I could mention some college ones about dudes puking, being downright filthy or stealing my condoms. However, the story of my post college housemate's Rottweiler trying to kill me by viciously biting me several times is probably the winner.

I had to sue him so he would pay for my medical bills that he originally promised to cover and we shared the same bathroom at this time still. The dog continued to live in the house, locked up in his room all day and it was 2 months after the attack until he finally moved out.

I could write a short story about this biggest DICK Head in the history of mankind. Oh, the dog had attacked the ahole a year before and bit half of his bicep off! AND HE KEPT THE DOG! Anyway enough of my past canine mental trauma, back to the hilarious web site.

You can submit a roommate story and here is the sample from the site.

Dear Roommate,

I'm sick of you leaving your shit all over the place, and not paying me back when I pay your electric bill. And drinking my beer. And hitting on my girlfriend when you're drunk. I've had enough. I'm taking a stand. This site is dedicated to you and the millions of other dick roommates around the world.

Sincerely,

Your Roommate


Here are couple of my favorites but check out the whole site.

Dear Roomate,

You go out 5 nights a week, get drunk and call the same ugly fat girl to get your dick wet. So you leave me two options: cry myself to sleep to the sound of you porking that bitch. OR sleeping in the lounge on a tinyass ikea furniture. F-you, you chubby chasing son of a bitch

The guy you share mailbox with

Dear Roommate,
Puh-lease stop flexing everytime you take a photo with our crew. We get it. You go to the gym. We're all really impressed. I'm gonna start photoshopping you out if you don't stop.

Dear Roomate,
I am really starting to think that you're gay because you will not man up and get with chicks. I wish you would locate your balls and get the nerve to close the deal on some serious ass.

Sincerely, The guy who is trying to get you laid but is dealing with a homo

Dear Roommate,
Hey, thanks for the surprise you left for me when I brought my parents home during graduation weekend. I've never been happier to move out of the apartment.

P.S. you can keep the couch.

P.S.S. and where did you find that scrappy looking white boy???

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Cocktail of Death

Amy Winehouse has finally admitted her drug addcition and entered rehab in the US with her druggie hubby, Blake. It is a sad story but famous people with a drug problem is more common than watching fat people ordering Haggen Dazs.

I could on and on about how this Dbag hubby of hers is a bad influence and ruining her career. However, I do not care that much and they are BOTH straight up addicts. They would rather do drugs together all day, every day, no matter what. Check this out.

"She(Amy) told me she was addicted to heroin and cocaine and admitted 'It's silly, but you just get carried away'.

Carried away and it is silly? I could find several harsher words to describe this type of idiotic behavior. It is bad enough to be addicted to blow or H but to do both? That is a death wish. Speaking of ODing:

Amy, 23, made her confession just days after she collapsed after bingeing on a cocktail of heroin, ecstasy, cocaine and the horse tranquilliser ketamine. She was rushed to hospital to have her stomach pumped.

This girl needs her brain checked too. If you feel the need and want to get high, pick ONE drug and do it up! Heroin, E, Coke, and Special K? You might as well drink draino and antifreeze.

I would like to see the word "cocktail" stop being used to describe people mixing drugs. When I think cocktail, I do not want images of addicts shooting H in their veins and coming down by chasing special K. YUCK.

My cocktail is a mixed alcohol drink made by a hottie bartendress or a Brian Flanagan wannabee. It is poured stiff, with ice and a straw. No needles necessary.

I love this girls voice but with this type of heavy addiction and enablers around her, I highly doubt she will live to age 30.

Oh, you are welcome for this cheery story early in the morning.
Happy Humpday.
word, Mac G.

Article on Amy going to Rehab
I cut Myself Winehouse Post



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Best Tackle Ever

My appreciation for mascots has been raised after watching this great video. The Lions could have used the KC wolf in their secondary on Sunday.

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Nothing plus Nada equals Zippo

It is Munday. I am seriously brain dead. My liver and lungs both hate me from this past weekend. I am starting to get the Monday afternoon shakes. Addiction is a Bitch. Mac G is on straight empty.

Aside from the 3-0 Packers, my favorite teams completely suck. Wake Me when the Alamo/Independence Bowls are over. Ronnie Brown tore an Ahole in all of my fantasy teams yesterday. Yes, Ronnie Fn BROWN!

Even great looking Poon here and here can not rescue me today. More Iraq policy blunders and contiunal political incompetence have not been able to fire me up on any rants either.

The highlight of my day was finding out the White Stripes Meg White has a sex tape and might have been the real reason for the band pulling out of dates on their last tour. You can download the footage and see pictures here. All right, maybe it is a lowlight and it might not really be her. Who really knows or cares? This girl has a nice rack.

I digress, Saints and the Overs.

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Tip to TV Tan Line for the Silas photo from "Weeds." I think watching Mary Kate Olson's boney ass dry humping in last week's Weeds' episode sent me on a downward spiral. I can not believe the Olson twins were ever widely known as the hottest jail bate for several years running in the early 00's. Did that really exist?




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Perfect Picks

My Olly girls are back with their picks. It is quite apparent that they have not heard of half of these football players until they read their names of the cue cards. Does that really matter? Not at all.

If you are relying on them for gambling advice, you are more Fd than OJ's kids. A memo to the people writing the material for these lovely ladies, Picking Carson Palmer for the fantasy tip of the week is completely moronic. You are just adding more bleach to Olly Girls' already blond hair/image.

Palmer just put up 6 Tds and 400 yards last week and had one of the biggest fantasy games for a QB in the past 5 years. OF COURSE players are going to start him. Now, if you want me to fly out to Cali to tell them that, Sign Me Up. I am starting to like some of this new Pac Ten Poon.
Watch the whole video, great surprise ending full of whip cream. word, Mac G.

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Emmy Nominations

This is great and the Daily Show won the award.

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Stroke that Funk Mc Lovin

I finally saw Superbad last night and yes, it is freaking hysterical! I know that I am a few weeks late but my booze and football habits are hard to control to carve out any time for a flick. I think this movie set the all time penis joke record. Now, I know why I keep finding dick drawings all over my pad too. My roommate, the Russenator, better not have some lunchbox treasure chest of penis illustrations that he is not telling me about.

Everyone is funny in this movie and the one liners are classic but my favorite character was by far Fogel or McLovin. He pretty much carries the second half of the movie. I had way too many high school flashbacks in this movie. My fake ID in high school was money too, until the Feds confiscated it in a fake ID sting. Oh well, another story for another time. And, Screw you Uncle Sam for changing the drinking laws from 18 to 21. All it does is make kids drink and drive and abuse alcohol more. Hey 18-20 year olds out there, Mac G still cares about your right to booze. If you can die, vote, gamble, you sure as hell should be able to drink a scotch or 20.

Anyway, here is another link list. I have some more pimp videos that I plan on posting soon. After the past sPoonfull week, Mac G's World audience might be in the teens now. Giddy Up.

• Say Goodbye to Rosenblatt stadium, the home of the College World Series in Omaha. It looks like NCAA is forcing the City to build them a new stadium or face the possibility of losing the CWS. Here are the recommendations from the NCAA for the new stadium. Mayor Fahey of Omaha is all about building a new downtown stadium and I think it is an excellent idea. The Blatt has history but it is a dump. I like the city leaders are being progressive. The success of the QWest center, which will host 2 rounds of NCAA March Madness next spring, proves investing into public projects benefits the community by encouraging development resulting in a increased tax base.

• My man Mark Cuban was spotted in the bleachers at Wrigley this week. Check out the photos and this did not throw any water on the Cuban Cubs ownership rumors. I think it is pretty cool to see a billionaire in the bleachers. I had my first bleacher experience over labor day weekend and the place is insane. No one really knows that a game is going on and it is a total tailgating atmosphere. Purely Awesome. Miss SoBell and I ended up befriended 3 hot girls from Dallas sitting next to us and I watched for innings these Dbags around us try their weak game on them. My favorite story was witnessing this tool invite one of girls to his Yacht on Lake Michigan and then busting him taking his wedding ring off right in front of us. It was pathetic. I ended up trying to hook my buddies up by serving these girls up afterwards at High Tops in Wrigleyville on a tee but they whiffed like Soriano on a 0-2 slider away. Oh, Check out Cuban's Blog too. Dude is a maniac! I love him.
  
• My Boy Awful Announcing breaks down the Bill Simmons Podcast with Erin Andrews. I would have asked her about her recent super skinny physique, crappy rumors of her hooking up with the Dirty Badgers' Head Coach and what married athletes have hit on her. They got their Chowderhead on with each other instead. Great.
  
• Speaking of the Wisconsin Dirty Badgers, School officials will be breathalyzing underage students with prior alcohol offenses when entering Saturday's home game against Iowa. The Show and Blow policy will make these students blow .000 to be allowed into the game. When did the Nazi regime return to power in Madtown? Last time I checked, the college revolved around kids ages 18-22 and without them, the university would not exist. You tell me the percentage of all fans in attendance that would be to blow a .000 for a 7pm kick? 15 percent? Lower? Thanks to Big Ten Tailgate for the link.
  
• I was sent a link by Notorious DEK with more pictures of the infamous Allison Stokke. The 2007 high school internet version of FSU Cowgirl Jenn Sterger. Stokke is 7 or 8, however, the "face looks good but your body's not ready."
  
• Has anyone heard Tom Brady weigh on this Bellicheat video scandal yet? I want to know what he has to say and without subpoena, I am sure will not. I just read today in Profootball talk(Scroll down)that the NFL is ready to sweep the investigation under the table. I think there could more layers of this story to unravel and I hope someone in the media takes up the challenge. Hint, Hint, ESPN. The Pats are good but please stop with this 16-0 talk, it is only going to be WEEK 3!!
  
• When something bad happens to you this weekend, follow my lead and blame a Move.org Ad. for everything. It seems to be the only reason for everything that is currently wrong with our country. Enjoy the weekend. Happy Poon Hunting. Word, Mac G.
  

Goodbye Blatt
NCAA Demands new yardfor CWS
Cuban in Bleachers at Wrigley
Cuban's Blog
Sports Guys chats with Erin Andrews
Dirty Badger's Show and Blow Policy
ProFootball Talk
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Crank Dat Soulja Boy

I am not a big fan of Texas and recently their football players can not stay out of the police blotter but this dance is pretty dope.

"Book Em, Crunk Horns!"


Thanks to my Brahs at Brahsome for the tip.


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Golf Club for Sale

This hilarious Golf Ebay ad was emailed to me from my buddy, Rado Joe. It seems the seller is pretty pissed at his ex-girl for ruining his passion for golf. And for her getting fat, real FAT. You can read the whole funny rant here. Check out a snippet.

Im selling this club because I finally left my fatass girlfriend who hated the fact that I loved to play golf. I bought this for her when hybrids first came out which was approximately 5 years ago or when she was 115 pounds lighter. She stopped playing golf soon after I introduced her to the game and decided she would rather eat cookies and tacos as a sport.

When she decided to start playing again she realized that her hands were to swollen to grip the club properly from all the meat around her knuckles. In addition, she couldnt figure out why she could not make a shoulder turn anymore. Truth be told, her titts got so big and droopy that she had to use my Sun Mountain push cart to haul them when we played (the cart has since buckled from the overloaded weight capacity).

EBAY AD

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Band Of Horses

One of the best new bands that I have seen in 07 has been "Band of Horses." They sound like Wilco with a Southern Rock Jam Band influence. Pure and Simple, Dudes are rock stars and their stock is rising rapidly.

Band Of Horses are set to release their Phil Ek produced sophomore album, Cease To Begin through Sub Pop on October 9. Following the release the Horses will tour heavily through North America starting on October 14 in Atlanta. While touring the band will make stops at "Late Show with David Letterman" (October 18) and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (November 5).

Take a listen on their MySpace page. The songs, "Funeral" and the "Great Salt Lake" are two of their top singles from the their last album, "Everything All the Time."

More Details on Band of Horses from JamBase.
Link to Preorder CD and it comes with free a Koozie, HOLLA!
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Back to the Mac G Attack

I apologize to my 10 MGsW Homeys for my lack of posts recently. I am still knee deep in Poon and it is very hard to keep my head above this deadly Poon water. I did not take seriously the "swim at your own risk" Poon warnings. I can finally take some breaths and here are some links from around the series of tubes.

Agent Zero is my MAN! Gil has a new blog up about his plans to come out with 20 new Gil20 sneakers and drop unique pairs in different cities when he plays. Be sure to check out some of his older blogs where he just CRUSHES Richard Jefferson for giving money to Arizona in order for them to name a practice court after him and how Arenas is the best recent pro Wildcat.

In another post, he details of how he fought with his girlfriend/baby mama and how he had to sleep at the gym for a week. It is very funny and do not take his love advice. I heart Big Game Gil Arenas.

LT or LDT has his truck up for sale on Ebay. No word if Norv Turner will find a way to sabotage the auction. (100% Injury Rate)

Here is an excellent coverage of the Austin City Limits music festival held last weekend. I know I missed out on a memorable trip and instead watched my college team's get pulverized. Recaps include: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Coverage of the Fire, and More ACL links, Here and Here. (Hidden Track)

Mac G is a registered DC voter, which means I have no representation in Congress. ZIPPO! NADA! Total BS. Even though DC has more population than Wyoming and is one of the most powerful cities in the FN world, I have no Senators or Representative.

Do you think the people who live London, Moscow, Tokyo or Mexico City have no voting rights in their legislative branches of government? No Way. DC voters/citizens pay federal taxes but their only representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton, has no vote in the House so she is pretty much useless. I will save my lengthy 2,000 word manifesto on this topic for another time.

Today, bipartisan legislation reached the Senate to give DC a representative in the House and create a seat for Utah as well. This was to balance out the political fall out. DC should have 2 Senators as well and be considered a state but for now, I will take the lone bone the good old Nanny US congress was throwing my fellow DC residents' way.

In true obstructionist form, Senate Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell, placed a filibuster threat on the bill. This required a minimum 60 votes to overcome the filibuster(called cloture) and it fell short by 3 votes.

The DC Voting rights bill would have passed the Senate if called to the floor and this is the same type of maneuvering which prevents the war from ending.
Here is the Live Blog, Sen. Byrd's non vote bitch move, the conclusion of what now?

A Florida student was tasered at Q&A with John Kerry. Check the video out. (More Credible)

I watched a great movie documentary over the weekend, Iraq for Sale. I have placed the trailer down below and it sheds more light on the most under reported story of the current war, aside from Saudi nationals killing over half of our US troops, is the lack of true oversight on the US contractors in Iraq.

If I can ever start swimming past the poon, I have a huge post in the works on all of these consultants milking our tax dollars, with little results and the major privatization of this war.

One of the most controversial contractors is Blackwater, a private US security company who operates in Iraq on government contracts with the state department. The same day I was watching this video, Blackwater came under criticism for having a fire fight in the Iraqi streets by killing 10 civilians, injuring 13.

The Iraqi government is pissed, wants them out of the country and an Iraqi judge requests for them to stand trial in Iraq. The problem is that contractors may be immune from prosecution under a measure conceived by the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority not long after the March 2003 invasion. US citizens can only be held trial in the US and not Iraq. I am sure this news should help spur more "progress" reports for the Iraqi people. Read more from Talking Points Memo.

I am going to buy this book about Blackwater by Jeremy Schaill.
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

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It is a POON Outbreak!

Mac G's World is drowning in Poon.

The memory of SECPOON will live on with Poon of the SEC. Check out the first installment and bookmark that bitch.

There are more new Poon sites cropping up on the series of tubes.

ACC Poon
Pac 10 Poon
Big 10 Poon
Big East Poon

All this great Poon makes a loss feel just a tad bit better and the endless argument over a college football playoff system now seems less important. I love Poon.

Happy Munday Poon Lovers.


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Poon of the SEC
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Pac 10 Poon
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Only Highlight from the Emmy Awards

I have no idea if the Emmy Award's show was entertaining or not(I was busy watching the Bellicheat Pats crush the Lightning Bolts) but these 3 dudes surely can keep most people watching. Words that come to mind are "Truthiness with a broken wrist, Or NAMBLA and I love Lamp." Enjoy.


Thanks to Think Progress and Just Jarred for the Video.

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The Olly Girls with Perfect Picks

Mac G's World has pimped the Sunset Tan show on the E channel earlier this summer. The hot smoking hot Olly girls(Molly&Holly) are hilarious and the only reason that I still have the show on my tivo.

Nick, a cast member of the show, is an annoying 22 year old know it all and his whiney ass makes me want to punch him through my TV. His drama with his rich stuck up girlfriend is almost as nauseating as 6 of the 7 current members of the Sydney Real World cast. Isaac is the only cool sane one that MTV has chillin down under.

Back to the sparkling Olly girls, it turns out that they have started their own video NFL segment called Perfect Picks on this website, KUSH TV. I just found this out because Molly and I are Myspace BFFs.

I am still looking for their Week 2 picks but here are 2 clips, the Preseason Preview and Week One picks.

Perfects Picks will definitely a be a weekly feature on Mac G's World. Happy Munday!









Olly Girls showing rules on tackle football and where do I sign up for this tackling drill?


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The Power of the Poon

Black Poon Friday has come and gone. As Poon Hunters everywhere try to pick up the pieces, answers have been rolling in.

Poon Regulators have successfully mounted up in the important Saban poon investigation.

SEC Poon was shut down due to a request by Bama coach Saban or more than likely, his legal reps. A picture of his 15 year old niece was posted on the site. You can access the google cache on this link and the infamous picture was under the "Please Help!" Post from Monday, September 10.

The original post had a picture of 2 girl Bama fans, covered in red/white paint with coconut bras. The picture on the cache link now has Saban's niece cropped out and the title was changed to "We found her," singular, instead of the previous plural language.

The conclusion is that the creators of SEC Poon attempted to keep the site alive by deleting her picture, before the plug was eventually pulled on ALL of the Poon. Enter expletive against Saban's attorneys here______!!

I have recovered the picture but fear posting it or commenting on the niece's appearance. If God Saban has time to crush a popular harmless Poon blog, good ole little Mac G's World stands little defense to his team of high priced lawyers.

I am in discussions with some fellow poon lovers to keep the SEC Poon site alive. Please send any poon pix to macgsworld@gmail.com. Poon pix are welcome from all conferences, but SEC Pooners will still take top billing until proven otherwise.

The wounds of Black Poon Friday can only be healed by focusing on tailgating, college football and poon hunting. It's Gameday, BITCHES!

The message is clear: Do Not Underestimate the Power of the Poon.

UPDATE: The Poon of the SEC has been reborn. Check out the newbie site.
UPDATE II: It is a POON Outbreak!

Black Poon Friday

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Black Poon Friday

The never ending Iraq war has had me in the dumps lately and now this almost made me throw up my hot java on a glorious Friday morning.

SECP sincerely apologizes to Coach Saban & his niece.

My favorite site and absolute genius idea known as SEC Poon has been completely shut down! All posts and pictures have been deleted. NOTHING is left but a picture of Bama Head Coach Nick Saban's pompous mug with the above message.

We are left assuming that SEC Poon had displayed a picture of Saban's niece, resulting in its termination.

SHOCK, Disbelief, Outrage!

I was just starting to warm up to the South too and was finding it in my heart to move past the Civil War. Now this? Several of my friends have already contacted me and are pissed. SEC Poon fans are similarly traumatized by today's tragic news. Commenters' scorn have focused on Saban. Here is my favorite.

wtf? The guy lies about everything he does and then he ruins SECPOON!!!!!
I Hate Satan...I mean OSaben Bin Lien..whatever his name is.

I could not agree more with those sentiments. Poon Hunters need to MOUNT UP to find some answers. I plan on buying a 40oz at lunch and pouring some out for SEC Poon.

September 14th, 2007: The Day the Poon Died. RIP

UPDATE: SEC Poon Lives on in Google Cache Form!I hope I do not get sued for this (Mac G is broke!) but Poon hunters everywhere deserve one last taste of this delicious site. We all have been through too much on this horrible day: Black Poon Friday.

UPDATE II: The Power of the Poon and answers to the Saban Poon investigation.

UPDATE III: The Poon of the SEC has been reborn. Check out the newbie site.

UPDATE IV: It is a POON Outbreak!












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Planet BUSH and the Daily Reality in the County that Used to be Known as Iraq

PLANET BUSH!
My man Froomkin summarizes the reality outside of Bush's small world, you know, real life.

In the alternate universe that President Bush occupies, he gave a smashing speech last night.

Over there, the people of Iraq need our help to save them from the al Qaeda terrorists who intend to overthrow their brave and united government on the way to attacking America. It's a battle of good versus evil. We have 36 countries fighting alongside us. And the fight is going very well indeed. Ordinary life is returning to Baghdad.

A few more things about Bush's universe: There, the president can make things true simply by solemnly pronouncing them from the Oval Office. He can reach out to his critics just by saying he is doing so. And people believe him.

But over here in the real world, things are different.

Iraq is mostly ruled by armed gangs, not a central government. American troops are dying in the crossfire as the country continues to violently disintegrate along ethnic and sectarian lines. We're in it pretty much alone. There's no end in sight. And the real al Qaeda is regrouping in Pakistan.

President Bush is trying and failing to rally support for a war that the majority of Americans have concluded is not worth fighting. He's not going to change anyone's mind because he's too stubborn to change his own. And in any case, his credibility is shot to hell.

PLANET BUSH


Please Check out this video and this is the type of reporting that we do not hear from our US media at all. It shows how messed up our policy is and we have no long term solutions for the mess at all.


Juan Cole had posted this great video.

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Hold....Hold....Hold.... NOW!!! Petraeus! Petraeus!

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You Call that Center?

The President tonight plans on telling the country that the his "Surge" 30,000 troops will be coming home next year but will still leave the same number of troops as before he announced the surge last January.

I can not comprehend this shit anymore. I just want to drop F bombs all over the place. This action is WAY out of touch with what the public wants.

Kids keep dying, Iraqi refugees are fleeing(2mil and rising), Hundreds of separate highly armed Militias control their own individual neighborhoods and could care less what is going on in some inconsequential "Green Zone."The propped up US Iraqi Govt has absolutely no control over them.

Osama is still alive and we keep going further into debt as a nation.

People against the war are continually smeared as unpatriotic, defeatists but pro war supporters are labeled as strong Americans who fight for freedom and want victory.

Against the War= Pussies, Losers, Un American
For the War= Tough, Winners, True Patriots

Being against this war is a pretty main stream idea and no matter how hard the WH spins this "Surge," all it really is more death and destruction for Iraqis/US soldiers. Losing more US life sure does not seem to bother House Minority Leader John Boehner. He was on CNN saying more US troop deaths are a small price to him. Of course, they are not HIS kids or HIS family members. Check out the video here.

Our political debate has sunk to new lows. We can not even admit our mistakes and try to move forward. The policy is a complete failure and has been since the day we disbanded the Iraqi Army. Do not ask Bush about the decision to create large numbers of unemployed, highly military trained insurgents with arms. He can not recall who made the decision. SHOCKER!

"The policy had been to keep the [Iraqi] army intact; didn't happen," Bush told Draper. Asked how he had reacted to Bremer's reversal, Bush replied, "Yeah, I can't remember. I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' "

The Pro War cheerleaders keep arguing things are not mistakes and that they need more time to prove everyone wrong. Where is the leadership in this country to finally say hey, after 4 1/2 years, 600 bill, 30,000 casulaties that we have no clue to what we are doing. Therefore, it is time to cut our losses and get international help out of this situation.

F BOMB times FBOMBS!

No one wants to abandon what our shitty leaders did to these poor people in the middle east because of our imperliastic hatred of their former dictator. We have to find real solutions for them and us. Political ones and not military.

The people in charge are so vested in to "winning" that they will not face reality.

FBOMBS!

My Man Froomkin sums up our political leaders ignoring the demands of the people up quite well in his column today.

You Call That the Center?
What's a middle-road approach to Iraq?

The White House would like you to believe the middle road is what President Bush will announce tonight from the Oval Office: The possible return to approximately pre-surge troop levels by sometime next summer.

A growing bipartisan movement on Capitol Hill would like you to believe the middle road is Congress agreeing on some modest, incremental, and in some cases non-binding limits on the president's policy.

But what's middle-road for the American public? A sizeable majority wants Bush to bring most of the 160,000 troops home from Iraq in about the same time frame that he is proposing to withdraw less than 30,000. According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, for instance, 55 percent of Americans support "legislation that would set a deadline for withdrawing U.S. combat forces from Iraq by next spring."

On the antiwar extreme, some Americans want all U.S. troops of out Iraq right now; on the prowar extreme, some want those troops to stay indefinitely. But the consensus view is that Americans want out -- starting now, ending soon.

How, then, has the political debate in Washington become so skewed? Why is it so out of step with the will of the people?

One answer, of course, is that most Republican members of Congress are sticking with Bush. But a lot of the credit belongs to the White House, for a public-relations push that flooded the zone starting in early August.

The emphatic and persistent White House message about nominal military successes in Iraq, culminating with Gen. David Petraeus's congressional testimony this week, dominated the airwaves and shifted the inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom about Iraq policy -- while not, interestingly enough, diminishing the public's desire to get the hell out one bit.

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US deaths are a small price to Boehner
One Sided Political Debate
Who Disbanded the Iraqi Army? We Still Do No Know

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I Heart the 90s

Blind Melon burst on to the scene in the early 90s and is one of the decade's biggest underrated bands.

Similar to brilliant front men of the era(Cobain, Nowell, Sandman), Blind Mellon's lead singer Shannon Hoon died prematurely of a drug overdose.

Blind Mellon has a new tour scheduled with a new singer. I have my reservations on calling a band the same name with a new vocalist and for now I will stay with my old Blind Melon.

I have attached 3 vids from their prime and they are pretty FLY.

I heart the 90s!
WICKED,
Mac G.






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Austin City Limits Music Festival

Austin is one of the cooler must visit cities on this planet. I could live there tomorrow and it gives you the feeling that you are not in the mess called Texas. My one trip to Austin was about the only positive thing I salvaged from a tumultuous relationship with this Spurs fan girl. I would elaborate in greater detail but I believe her sibling is one of Mac Gs World's number one fans so I will pass for now.

Austin City Limits Music Festival is this weekend and the lineup is SICK! The webcast will be streaming live on the AT&T Blue Room. I hope the At&T Censor Masters will allow free speech on the ACL stream unlike what they did to Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza.

Eddie Vedder said what an overwhelming majority of Americans already agree with: Bush sucks at his job and the war needs to end.
They edited his anti Bush lines from the broadcast. LAME!

Regardless, here are the bands that I would watch each day. Here is the Blue Room link and the ACL Link

Day 1, Friday 9/14 Must See Music Acts
Bela Fleck
JJ Grey and MoFro
LCD Soundsystem
M.I.A
Queens of Stone Age
Spoon
Reverend Horton Heat
The Killers

Day 2, Saturday 9/15, Must See Music Acts
Railroad Earth
Cold War Kids
Artic Monkeys
Damon Rice
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Arcade Fire

Day3, Sunday 9/16, Must See Music Acts
The National
Sound Tribe Sector Nine
Grace Porter and the Nocturnals
Robert Earl Keen
Common
Patterson Hood
Rose Hill Drive
Wilco
My Morning Jacket
Ziggy Marley
The Decemberists
Bob Freaking Dylan

I am missing tuns of bands that I have never seen before that are probably pretty good.

Enjoy the Show. Word, Mac G.

Eddie Vedder Censored by AT&T
Austin City Limits Music Festival
ACL Music Festival Streaming Live
Everyone Knows Bush Blows!

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Democratic Mashup

Yahoo, Slate, and the Huffington Post recently completed their own debate with the Democratic Candidates for President. It can only be viewed online. I can not stand most of these debates on either side because they are BORING and every presidential hopeful says the same things over and over.

This new forum lets you chose which individual candidate that you want to listen to on a certain topic with Charlie Rose asking most of the questions. Every candidate has to answer a Bill Maher question, which range from legalizing Marijuana to the 10 Commandments.

Check it OUT.

Presidential Mashup
Huffington Recap of Mashup

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Today in America: Prices and Debt Rising, Wages Flat, R Word Coming?

Remember our country America? The one that we all live in every day and not the country formerly referred to as Iraq that we blew up and can no longer put back together in a self sustaining fashion.

Well, we have a plethora of our own Fd up problems that everyone faces here. I could write down the long laundry but I just read a great recap of the state of things domestically here in the US by the Boomnan Tribune.

"What costs $80 buckaroos?" you ask. The answer is: The price of a barrel of crude oil, my friends. And isn't that just wonderful news for all the little people, like you and me?

The price of oil last night broke through the $80 a barrel level for the first time on fears of winter supply shortages. [...]

Analysts said the 500,000 barrels per day increase in quotas from November announced by Opec this week had not been enough to outweigh concerns that a fresh wave of hurricanes could hit American oil installations.

Crude oil stockpiles in the United States fell 7.1 million barrels last week to their lowest in eight months, according to the Energy Information Administration. Analysts had expected a fall of 2.4 million barrels.

Let's see. Health care costs continue to rise at a rate nearly 4 times greater than wages have risen since 2000. Milk prices are also way up, costing more per gallon than gasoline. Income inequality between the rich and everyone else is the highest it's been since the Depression era.

We are in a severe credit crunch thanks in large part to Republican led de-regulation of financial institutions. And after one of the worst economic recoveries in terms of generating jobs and wage growth in US history, economists are finally starting to use the R word to describe the meltdown of the US economy, led by the free fall in the housing market and the mortgage crisis.

I guess we need to cut more of Paris Hilton's and Bill Gates' taxes, eh? Obviously we haven't done enough in that regard. Not to worry though. I'm sure President Bush will find a way to blame all this on the Clintons.

I would also add that the average American owes 9 grand in credit card and the price of a college education continues to sky rocket higher.

The recent student loan scandal unmasked the scam of university officials and their preferred lenders being far more interested in maximizing their own profit margins to the point of gouging families then honestly assisting young people with their higher educational needs.

We should be bending over backwards to help out our youth in every way fathomable become smarter and more trained to excel in an uber competitive global economy.

Instead, we let credit card companies issue these naive and mostly unemployed young adults huge lines of credit and then saddle them with huge college loans after they graduate. Here is a good personal article about the struggles post graduates face paying back their student loans.
The Project on Student Debt has these great policy recommendations for Congress.
Here are our four top priorities for Congress:

1. Ensure that borrowers with federal loans have fair and manageable payments;
2. Rein in private student loans;
3. Restore integrity to financial aid counseling; and
4. Increase access to need-based aid.

Booman Tribune and 80 dollar Oil
College Loan Scandal
Steep Student Loan Debt
Project Student Loan

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Hello Larry Summer Music Awards

Here is Hello Larry's Movie Review

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Football is Paradise Part 1(Long)

The Summer was a very long one for sports fans. The headlines were dominated by dismal stories of dog fighting, NFL player suspensions and a crooked NBA ref scandal. Baseball's climatic moment, Barry Bonds breaking Henry Aaron's Home Run record, was marred by the media's constant pounding of the steroid storyline of his accomplishment.

Even Arod's monster 07 season seems diminished due to the fact his own fickle Yankee fans spent the off season solely blaming him for their recent playoff futility and even openly booed him at every chance late last season. The Yanks struggled out of the gate and ESPN's typical Yankee/Sox intoxicating coverage seemed more out of place than usual for your average baseball fan.

To make matters worse, Sports fans suffered through ESPN's putrid month long "Who's Now?" segment on Sportscenter. LT or Tiger? Who Cares? Is this a sports channel or VH1? I actually have switched over to ESPN news for my sports highlight needs and they are far more reliable than Sportscenter anymore. Sad but true days for the good Ole Big show that I grew up on.

I love baseball but if your favorite team is out of contention, of course my Orioles always are, the dog days of summer can seem longer than Tommy Lee's G unit. That could be what the MTV VA fight was all about.

Preseason NFL games and the opening of college practices start to satisfy your football taste buds. Both of those, particularly the NFL preseason, reminds me of the feeling you get when you leave a gentlemans club. Sunshine, who winked at you all night, was being dishonest about you being her only special friend.

Your wallet is much lighter and this wicked case of blue balls now overcomes your body.This cheap feeling is how preseason football leaves me, highly teased but never truly satisfied.

This shallow brief arousal finally ended with this past stellar sports weekend. Second Week of College Football on Saturday and Opening Day of NFL on Saturday.

Throw in the US Open tennis Final, a Brazil/USA soccer match at Soldier Field and another Tiger domination of a final round of golf and it was like all the summer futility never took place. One of the best sports viewing weekends of the year so far.

I watched at least over 25 hours of football over the past 3 days. I have 3 TVs going, all the packages from Direct TV and a no commercials allowed rule with a quick trigger finger. People think I am nuts, YES, sir, may I have another!

Aside from my obvious contributions to bottle recycling and liver decay, I feel like giving back to my 8 readers by recapping my thoughts here on Mac Gs World every week about the games I viewed.

I will try my combination of couch potato humor, drunken kill the coach crazy fandom and buck fifty worth analyst skills. Feel Free to rip on me all you want, I encourage it.

Week 2 of College football contained some of the same story angles of Week 1.

• Michigan and Notre Dame both still suck. OU/LSU looked fast, hungry and dominant.
• Michigan Head Coach Lloyd Carr post game quotes sounded like a defeated man. 4 games ago, Carr's undefeated team was playing Ohio State for a spot in the BCS title game and now he is dead man walking in Ann Arbor with his coaching career pretty much over. Crazy how quickly things can change. "Boy that Escalated quickly!"
  
• My Hawkeyes Crushed the Cuse 35-0 and my home state Huskers escaped Wake Forrest with a W. I would go in to further detail but I will save those comments for Hawkeye/Husker blogs and message boards.
  
• I love watching West Virginia play and their lethal spread offense. More teams should copycat their style and raid Rich Rodriguez's coaching staff. Slaton/White is the best 1/2 running punch in America and the new true frosh RB is legit. The question mark is whether they are able to stop anyone on defense.
  
• Washington Huskies are 2-0. Hey, Golden Domer fans, Ty Willingham might not be such a bad coach after all. Fat Chuck Weis is now 0-2 with starting QBs not with Brady in their name. Coincidence? Jimmy Clausen, welcome to Major D1 football and this is not small school California High School ball anymore.
  
• Does Hawaii QB Colt Brennan play real football or his own video game version? His weekly stats are SICK!
  
• The Big Ten is going VERY slow out of the gate as the Suckeyes had 3-2 lead for WAY too long over Akron.
  
• SEC appears its usual force but had a few slip ups with Auburn and UGA upset losses. I am sucker for a Southern Poon Bell. Ring a Ding, Ding!
  
• Pac 10 will be its typical overrated self. Aside from USC, name me one Pact 10 school that has won a major BCS bowl in the past 5 years? I think Cal maybe won a Holiday bowl but I could be wrong.
• The Big East could be better than the ACC.
  
• The most entertaining game I witnessed was the Fresno St/Texas A&M, triple OT thriller. Fresno has a squad this season and A&Ms defense looks VERY shaky.
  
• Miami/Florida St have still lost their edge as premier programs and both of their offenses look very pedestrian. Bobby Bowden's time is up. I am convinced that Paterno and Bowden are both destined to coach until the other one croaks.
  
• ESPN College Gameday Crew still brings their A game every week and continually prove to be one of the few things right about the 4 Letter. A blog giving Props to ESPN? STOP THE TUBES! My Boy Tree Rat provided me with his pix from Baton Rouge and Blacksburg.
  

I will write my NFL recap on a new post. I still love Poon POON, and more Poon!




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