NoCalMike

Fred Thompson is out.

Well I have noticed that a lot of these MMA clothing companies are based out of Southern California, so maybe a lot of their clients are the young, rich, yuppie, gym rats that have the money to spend and just love to look like badasses wearing MMA gear. If that is the case then fine, but they aren't going to be able to expand much outside of that customer base.

Warrior wear has some decently-priced shirts(Of course the coolest ones with the trees is the most expensive), and most of their beanies are reversable so it is nice getting two designs for the price of one. Affliction is just ridiculous, $50 for a fucking t-shirt. I mean COME THE FUCK ON. Same with Extreme Couture

Yeah, once I start the gym I am definately eating pasta and garlic bread again. My diet will be more about portion control in order for me to not have to be at the gym three hours a day to work it all off.

Someone told me it was a good movie until it turned into

Well like I said, this isn't going to be a permanent change for me, it isn't a new "life-style" of eating. I just want to do some type of diet that way once I start the gym routine in another month or so, I will have already been attempting to start some sort of eating routine. Also, whether or not it is healthy to do or not, it definately does work, I have seen it with my own eyes from people I work with. It works, but shouldn't be relied on for life. My sister is a registered nutritionist and she is not in favor of this diet because she says carbs is how we get energy. Basically our body needs carbs, but she doesn't deny that cutting out carbs will make you lose weight. I started it today, and one thing is for sure, it is going to take some time getting used to drinking Iced Tea without any sugar....

I got the day off today. Of course, I work for a non-profit, so maybe they get more days off then normal.

Bars are Great. The drinks may be overpriced, but if you stay there long enough the entertainment that usually ensues almost makes the prices worth it.

A couple years ago I was at the Orangutan exhibit, and the male noticed someone in the crowd holding a red plastic ball(the kind in the jumphouses at mcdonalds playgrounds) so it walked to the edge of it's grassy area(right before there is the big cement drop so they can't escape) and reaches out his arm towards the red ball, sort of asking for it......so the kid looks around sees no staff around and throws it to him....so ar first the Orangutan thinks it is food and tries to eat it and he chews a big hole into the side of it.....he quickly figures out it isn't food, so the smart fucker takes the ball to his waterfall area, and fills it with water and starts using it as a cup......after this his kids or maybe girlfriend orangutan sees this and wants to wrestle it away from him, but he wasn't ready to give it up quite yet....once he got done drinking water, he gave it up to his kids.

Last time I was there I went to the San Diego Wildlife Park. It was great. I also went to Sea World which was fun, but I was a kid so who knows now...

Except it didn't suck. Well I guess that is subjective. Anyways it's really not your call to say whether it was an homage or not. You can definately chime in and suggest it was a shitty way to do an homage though.

I just had the Pizza Mia pizza for the first time. At the time I had no idea that it was some type of discounted special.....I'd definately say it isn't as good as Pizza Hut's normal Pizza. It isn't gross, (I mean no pizza is) but they definately must be making them different. I figured they started this new promo to compete with Little Caesar's which offer a Large Pepperoni pizza for $5.99 everyday, all day.

Complaining about b-level acting, regarding a movie that is a homage to "grindhouse" films is kind of laughable. I liked Death Proof a lot, better then Planet Terror.

UT turning face because Jake the Snake wanted to his Elizabeth with a chair........I mean come on UT hardly seemed like the type to give a shit....

I think there is a difference between having the best season ever, and being the best team ever. If the Pats win the Superbowl, then there is no argument to be made that they had the best season ever, but with "Best Team Ever" there will always be room for debate because of all the intangibles that teams go through during the NFL season. I mean, for starters, while NE did look dominant for most of the season, when it has come to the post-season, they look like their usual, "just good enough to beat the competition"-selves as they did during their other superbowl runs. So the fact that they went 16-0 should not automatically or necessarily trump the fact that other teams might have gone 14-2 or 13-3 but once the playoffs started, they made fools out of their opponents.

When it comes to Obama, I am more concerned that he is not "Democrat" enough, of course, the same goes for Hillary. I mean it is usually during the primaries that is a "race to the left" but it is as if Obama/Clinton are already in the national election with their "race to the middle" It seems all talk of getting out of Iraq anytime soon has left the campaign trail, probably because the corporate media has declared the surge a success and no one is willing to stand up to such brilliant minds as Katie Couric and Sean Hannity.....!?!

Well I could see it being lame if I bought a pair of MMA-gloves and wore those around town....lol. However buying a t-shirt or a hoodie is no different then buying a football jersey or a band shirt. Now at the same time I see the point of "typical assholes thinking they are tough" because, yeah I know plenty of gym rats who would buy a Tapout or Team Punishment shirt and think because they have muscles and are wearing an MMA shirt, that they are a tough guy, but anyone that knows me, knows that I am the complete opposite of that, I just like the designs on some of the brands. The owner of the company that runs the booth told me he is shying away from Tapout anyway because they can be found at Hot Topic and Tillys and he can't compete with the wholesale rates they get as a company. Also Extreme Couture will only give him $3 less then retail so he doesn't carry that brand yet.....

Best bumper sticker of the year thus far that I saw yesteray "Could someone please give President Bush a blowjob so we can impeach him already"

The show was great. More excitement on this card then a lot of the bigger cards I have ordered at my house. Thank goodness for Hooters for showing all the UFC PPVs because it enables me to see the shows that I can't get enough interest in from friends to come over to watch..... There is an MMA gear vendor booth setup outside my local Hooters, he had some Tapout, Warrior, Sinister, Team Punishment etc etc merchandise for sale and he said Hooters wants him there for every show. If I would have known ahead of time I would have brought some cash with me......

I was watching Hannity & Colmes last night(i know, i know) and everyone was arguing about the economy, and Sean Hannity way out of left field tries to get in his usual pissy last word before they cut out for commercial break and yells out "Are you kiddng me the economy is doing GREAT" If they go by things like GDP and "productivity" then that kind of skews it. Say I am working in a warehouse for a major retail big box store. Every year their productivity numbers rise, so I am going to have to work harder and push more product out, which makes the numbers at the top look better on a piece of paper, but how has the economic status for the guy pushing out more product on his assembly line improved? True, someone somewhere is definately benefitting when productivity rises, but it is not necessarily the people responsible for pushing the higher productivity through. The economy is a tricky thing because the media often only goes by the numbers that show a bigger, better bottomline, which means in all honesty that the people at the top like CEOs are doing better because they are squeezing more work and productivity out of their workers, but at the same time these workers are falling behind inflation rates, have less take-home money, and the overall value of the dollar decreases. So when asking yourself "Is the Economy doing well" I think it is equally important to ask "WHO is the Economy doing well for?"

When it comes to taxes, politicians seem to be easily able to get away with general terms like "american people" and "your" Most of the time when they say "they will raise your taxes" it isn't even the crowd they are speaking to who's taxes would be raised. I dunno why the "raise your taxes" trick works over and over.

If the Democrats take the White House in November, the excuses are over when it comes to the War/Occupation in Iraq. I really hope for Clinton/Obama's sake that they do have a plan to get us the hell out of there.

I got Dish Network two years ago and still have it. There was no installation fee and I didn't have to pay for my equipment because it is all leased and will be returned to Dish Network if I ever cancel my service. I have never really had a problem. I just went through an episode of not getting a hot phone signal through my receiver, but Dish sent me a new receiver, and then the phone company replaced some sketchy wiring outside my house and the problem was fixed.....

Well Gina Carano was supposed to be on the card but she dropped off because supposedly with all the training she has been doing for American Gladiators, she just wasn't ready for a February fight...... Antonio Silva is on the card......the giant of a man. Here is a pretty entertaining interview with Slice/Abbott/Shaw from WO.com http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/h...t.asp?aID=21853

I just hope the next time we get a hot female terminator, she isn't designed with special hair that falls over and completely covers her breasts.