I was right! Isn't this fun?

     YES! I was right! It seems that my prediction and hunch last week was correct TLC has announced today that Kate Plus 8 has been cancelled, the last episode will air 12 September, 2011. Apparently in denial, Kate was quoted as saying “Nobody has told me [about being cancelled] ... We’re happy to continue on and will do so as long as people are watching” Originally titled Jon and Kate Plus 8 the show was re-titled in 2009 when Jon and Kate split up and got divorced. Since then the show has consistently slid down in the ratings to where it is now under a million viewers per week. In a non-scientific poll asking if they were sad that the show had been cancelled 59% polled said they didn’t care, 38% said they weren’t sad the show was cancelled and only 3% said they were sad and would miss the show. Asked about the shows cancellation Jon Gosselin told RadarOnline.com he was “very relieved” further stating that maybe now his kids can have a normal life and grow up sans cameras documenting their entire movements.

     To read more about Kate Gosselin and Kate Plus 8 being cancelled you can click here, and here.  To read more about Jon Gosselin and for some links to Pictures of the Gosselin’s click here.  Lets hope that Kate has learned some lessons from all this, namely to not use your kids to for your own gain, and to live like you are popular and people care when in fact no cares about you. All we can do is hope that this is the last time we have to deal with this attention seeking man-eating flirt monkey! Wake up Kate your 15 minutes are over with, now please go away!

Helga Part Deux

     I wrote about Helga a couple of days ago, it seems she just can’t leave well enough alone. Now after all these years she claims that she was molested as a child by a relative. Huh???? Supposedly this is a recovered memory, which she recovered spontaneously after drinking a few beers and taking some pills. HUH??? Now she claims that her previous diagnosis is wrong and she now has PTSD with Night Terrors. HUH??? Helga has not gone to a Dr. in a long time, heck she didn’t even go when she was pregnant the last 2 times she just stole other peoples pre-natal vitamins. Why would she all of a sudden get up and go to the Doctor when she hasn’t gone before? More like she self diagnosed, which she has a track record of doing a lot. (She claims she was pre-med in college and attended the first 2 ½ yrs of med school before she had to drop out, she attended 3 semesters of college total and never took a medical class at all. Apparently just thinking that you went to college and med-school gives you lots of experience and the ability to diagnose and self-diagnose medical problems!) I feel for this girl yet I don’t feel for her, as all her problems she has brought on herself and she has no one to blame but herself! Yet she won’t accept that, so she blames everyone else, us included, for her life turning out the way it has. When I spoke/chatted with her she was actually upset at me for leaving her in the shelter, when I explained that I had no idea she was in a shelter she blew up and went on a rage ranting incoherently and generally throwing a fit, after which I explained to her that per our previous conversation with her and her parents and others from our church that she was no longer welcome at her parents’ home, our home, and the church would no longer give her money, instead they would buy formula and diapers for her child, they just wouldn’t give her money directly as she spends it on drugs & alcohol. And to avoid her returning the diapers and formula to the store for money they now cut out the UPC bar code or peel the labels off.

     How many of us have a Helga in our lives or know of a Helga. What are you doing about it? Are you enabling him/her? Or have you cut them off, and are not giving them an out or someone to blame other than themselves? You need to be doing the latter! Cut them off make them accountable for their own actions, by doing so they will eventually hit rock bottom and when they do they will be forced to seek help! If they don’t and they die then at least you no longer have to worry about them anymore. I know that sounds harsh but trust me with someone like Helga it’s gonna take a lot to give her a wakeup call, as she has been doing this all her adult life. Let me add, when you do cut her off and make her accountable then you need to be prepared and to stand your ground. Once you start you can’t go back, you cannot back down ever if you do then you have lose and they win and then the problem gets worse. You need to be prepared for lots of yelling, screaming threats and possible even violence, if it does get violent or you are in fear of your life or hers then by all means call the police, she can always be arrested for making threats and if she is a threat to herself then they can declare her an EDP (emotionally disturbed person) and have her held on a 72 hour pysch-hold, which would probably be a good thing.

     Well people gotta go for now, be careful, be safe and please if you have a Helga in your life get them help and don’t give them want they seek which is enabling! If you are a Helga or Henry THEN GET HELP NOW! AND DON’T BURDEN YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS (unless you need a ride to rehab) IT’S YOUR PROBLEM NOT THEIRS! You got yourself into it not them, Okay!

AND PLEASE DON’T FORGET READ TO YOUR KID EACH AND EVERYDAY! 

So Far August has been a sad month!

     August traditionally means back to school, the end of summer and the beginning of harvest among other things it now means something sad. I am referring to TBS cancelling George Lopez and now the death of Jani Lane lead singer of 80's hair band 'Warrant'. I can understand Lopez being cut by TBS as his show was getting stale and he seemed to be trying to hard to be funny, but the way TBS cut/cancelled his show was down right rude! Read about it here.
     The death of Lane took a lot of us by surprise as it seemed he was healthy and was doing the right things or so it seemed. I guess it hit me hard as I am the same age 47, and I still feel invincible, even though I have had my share of close calls here recently, (coming close to death 4 times now makes you think about your immortality, especially when the last time you end up in the ICU in a medically induced coma for 25 plus days!).Anyway read  about Lane here.
     Again till next time please be safe, be careful and read to those kiddies please! Take care.

Good Lord this is all we need another International Incident involving a TV Show!

     When is the reality show going to go the way of the dinosaur? Or am I the only person in the universe who does not like reality TV shows? I namely and mainly despise two of these shows to the point of extreme hatred I think you know one the Kate Gosselin crapper, Kate Plus kiss my vagina oops Kate plus ate or is it eight? The other is 'Jersey Shore'. For the life off me I do not understand why anyone watches this junk? Who cares what a group of illiterate kids from Jersey do? I don't. Yet this crap-fest draws them in each and every week. MTV has a huge hit and millions of young kids have new role models to idolize.That's just great now we'll have a bunch of 9 & 10 yr old slut puppies running around dropping the F-Bomb at will and wearing hardly any clothing and talking in bizarre Jersey accents (think of whats her name shaggy no, squirrelly no, slutty no, shitty no, snooker no, oh snooki yeah that's it, think of a mini-snooki with the ugly face, gaudy make-up, big hair and slut-dog attitude). Parents is this what you want your kids to look up to? Is this really a show that you want to watch? Why? Why would you want to watch a show where all they do is talk about drinking, getting drunk and copulating, oh and most of the stars of this show are dumber than a sack of pubic hairs! 

     I don't get it what do people see in this show, whats the appeal, or are the viewers even dumber than the stars are? Until we take a stand the networks will keep throwing this crap at us, so lets take a stand and tell the networks we don't want their crap, we want good quality programming and not cheap reality shows that follow turds and retards and idiots! Better yet we can boycott TV altogether and do something healthier like going for a walk or reading or sitting down and talking to each other. Or for those who cannot give up TV altogether we can boycott the advertisers and let them know why we are boycotting them, that should get some attention quick! 

     Until then we only have ourselves to blame and only have crap to watch! Well people be safe be careful and be cool, and please read a book/story to your kids each and everyday! Til next time AMF and have a good one! 

Self Diagnosis and Medicating: Being Your Own Doctor Has Its Rewards and Advantages!

     Being a Friend and having friends are something that all of us do, whether we know it or not the human species is a social and herd animal, meaning we feel safer in groups and like living close to others, of course some of us like to live a little bit apart but that is beside the point. My wife and I have a friend who has made a complete and total train wreck of her life yet she refuses to accept responsibility for her actions, instead she blames everyone and everything else for her failures. When she was younger she was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, ADD, ADHD, and mild paranoia  (I know, wow) she took her medication for all of 3 days pronounced herself cured and quit taking them. This was when she was 16/17 yrs old, she is now 34 and acts anywhere from 10-18 sometimes even her own age. For the sake of it lets call this person Helga. Helga in her short life has given birth to 4 kids one when she was 16 or 17 yrs old, another when she was in her 20’s and 2 more almost back to back in her 30’s. The only one she has left is the last one the others she has given up and they are being raised by others. Yes Helga has problems yes she has burned all of her bridges, friends and family alike, she has no one to blame for her predicament but herself yet all she does is sit around blaming everyone for her problems. The main issue I have a problem with, is her inability to tell the truth. For as long as I have known her she has never once told the same story the same way twice, she either changes her story, adds to the lie or denies she ever said anything so I started taping and recording her in the hopes of getting her to acknowledge the facts and to try to do a mini-intervention. Somehow she always manages to make those around her the bad guys not her, she is innocent. That’s why we have cut her off so did her parents and her husband (who refuses to divorce her even though she has cheated on him numerous times and has even had 2 kids with other guys) so she moved in with the father of her latest child and things were okay till the truth came out or he discovered the truth about her anyway he threw her out and she has ended up in a local shelter where she has proceeded to throw a ginormous pity party and has blamed my wife and I among others for her problems, how do I know this if I am not talking to her somehow she has access to FaceBook and has posted her complaints about us online, she has also told the social workers there a whole bunch of lies, which they then pass on to us what is interesting is she also got thrown out of the shelter for lie and stirring up the other ladies there.

     Yes Helga has major issues! But that is not my major issue here, my issue is why do we allow others to do things like this to us?  Why allow a person to get away with treating us like Helga treated my wife and I for awhile before waking up and cutting them off, why not cut them off as soon as we realize what they are doing or never allowing them to get anywhere near us? Is it because we hope for good in our fellow man, and we tell ourselves that Helga couldn’t do be doing that to us! When in fact we are in denial far more than Helga is! Why allow the Helgas and the Henrys of the world to do this to us, maybe because we want to help and we refuse to see what is in front of us, a con-man, and not the innocent we want and need to help?!? I can only pray that we do not become as cynical as the Helgas and Henrys have become and never give those around us the benefit of the doubt and never allow anyone to get close to us!

Why I just don't give a plug nickel or How I have never watched!

     Let me start by saying I really don't care and I have never cared from the start! Heck I didn't even know who she was until DWTS! And I do not understand why some people cared about this obvious wannabe and who never will be HAS BEEN! Yes I am talking about Kate Gosselin. In case you haven't heard apparently her show is going down the tubes and her star has not only dimmed it's been shot out of the sky, the details are here. Why would anyone care about this egocentric attention seeking witch? Did you not get it when she was on DWTS and she showed her true self, of course that was only a brief glimpse of her true self. With her actions and the way she runs around flirting with anything older than 18 and younger than 80 is just sad to see her implode right in front of our eyes. I am surprised that (is it Jon?) her ex hasn't filed for full custody of the kids, cause when the nanny is more mature than the mom it really is a sad situation for the kids involved! But what is really sad is that Kate can't even get recognized as the famous star she so desperately wants to be, check out this part again "When he's told it was Kate Gosselin, he says "Oh. Is she like a famous baker or something?"  Just how funny is that? Well people got to go for now but be safe and be cool and please please read to your kids each and everyday! 
     
                                                                     ***UPDATE***


     It seems I posted to soon and didn't get all my references lined up in time, not only was there the story on Road Runner's gossip page, (RR is Time Warner's internet service arm) but  Eonline.com also ran a story about the same thing namely that Kate is on the way out personally I like reason #2's line It's Not Over, Kate Says So! like this shriveled up has been has the power to make us all watch and adore her, brb, had to go rinse out my mouth as I threw up from all this Kate crap! Anyway click here and you read E's take on Kate's downward spiral and flame-out.   Oh and please forgive the way this update looks, for some reason it wants to show up highlighted in white sorry guys, anyway be careful and be safe!    

...what we have here is a failure to communicate!

     Think about it, it is 2011 and we have literally a multitude of ways to communicate with each other and for every way to communicate we have a way to avoid said communication. Doesn't anybody think this is ironic and down right absurd? Why even create a new communication method to only find a way to block it? Who knows why people do what they do, they are humans and for the most part are crazy, weird and off their medication!
     Changing the subject, does anybody really think that the Crown Prince 'Obama' will be able to balance and reduce the budget like he says? Me personally I say NO! Why, why not give him and his plan a chance? Well first this guy is a liar, second he refuses to take responsibility for his own actions, he and his team are still blaming  the deficit and all the other problems on George W., wait a minute he has been in office coming on 3 years and yet he still blames others for his mistakes, yes look at the facts his previous plans didn't work and he blamed Bush, his next ideas exploded and he again blamed Bush, at what point will he take responsibility for his actions and quit blaming others and justifying his goofs, flops, gaffs, bad ideas and utterly horrible failures by blaming others? Come on 'Obama' get real and get honest quit the blame game and be a man oh yeah I forgot you had no role model growing up except other crooks, criminals, and thieves.
     Moving on I read where this 10 year old Montana boy caught a fish that could be twice his age almost 20yrs old, read the story here, wow catching a record largemouth bass and letting it go this kid is awesome! I like a lot of other idiots enjoy fishing, I also practice catch and release of certain fish species like bass, trout, and other cool trophy fish, only eating a select few as some fish have been shown to high levels of toxins in their flesh especially mercury and other heavy metals. It really did my heart proud to read that this kid was practicing catch and release so someone else could have maybe have the chance to also catch this fish, and the fish got to swim away to fight another day!
     Well people be safe and please at least talk to your better half and your kids this is probably the most important people you will ever talk to, far more important any head of state, king queen or celebrity! Talk to your family make it a point to do every day! 

....finally Texas has lower numbers than other states, even though it is only the Temperature.

Wow, but it is hot out there, course here in San Antonio well here in Texas it is not as hot as some other areas of the country, still though it’s hot! I have family living in Oklahoma where it has been 110* and 117* in the same week. Come to Texas and be sure to bring a sweater cause its only 94* degrees here. Lol! On a different note I just realized that the Dallas Cowboys showed up finally for training camp here in the Alamo City , and guess what I DON’T CARE, yep I DON’T GIVE A PLUG NICKEL for the COWBOYS! America’s Team? Yeah right, more like America’s losers! The cowboys are a bunch of spoiled, over-rated, over-paid, criminal Brats! Of course a lot of teams and not just football but all sports, have problem children on their rosters, but the Cowboys seem to have cornered the market on bad boys. What I don’t get or understand is why do people gripe and complain about so and so player being over paid or this and that yet you continue to support said player by buying the merchandise he sells or endorses? Huh, why, if this guy is that bad then quit making him rich or richer don’t buy what he is selling and boycott his sponsors trust me cut off his income stream and you will get his attention! Trouble is how do we threaten Jerry Jones the Cowboys owner? This guy has more money than G_D and doesn’t care if you threaten him! And to make matters worse his heir apparent his daughter is even worse than he is. Oh well, I guess all I can say is ‘Beat the Rush, Hate the Cowboys Now’ or ‘G_d Please call Jerry Jones home’. Or you can be like me and just say NO and watch NASCAR and college ball, and pray for a quick start to the NBA season! Getting back to the weather it reminds me of the C&W Song ‘Too Hot to Fish, Too Hot for Golf…’hmmm just how hot is too hot for fishing and is it every too hot for golf if you have enough beer course watch out don’t want to be accused of gwi, gui, gcwi or gcui…of course like all good golfers I have some war stories like losing a ball or two or losing a cooler full of beer, or taking a corner too fast in a cart and losing a case of beer cause they weren’t stacked right or the best one was losing an entire cart beer and all (no clubs though) hell with that much beer you don’t need clubs just head to the nearest shade tree and enjoy! Till next time people, choose your friends and beverages wisely! Catch you later, have a good day and stay safe.