Honor Flight rocks!

I've been donating to Honor Flight via the Combined Federal Campaign ever since I spoke to some of their guys at a CFC kick-off function a couple of years ago. These dudes are all ex-military and they fly remaining WWII vets to various memorials around the country to celebrate their sacrifice for our country.

With the Democrats, led by decrepit Harry Reid, shutting down the government to protect the train wreck of ObamaCare, the WWII memorial in Washington DC was closed to visitors today. I'm sure the socialist media and our fame-whoring President were hoping for some photo ops of Americans being turned away from the beloved memorial. They didn't get what they wanted.

"Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) 'opened the barricade' and allowed a group of 91 veterans on Tuesday to storm into the closed World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., according to a representative from the group.

Jen Walton, the secretary of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Honor Flight, which had been scheduled to visit the memorial Tuesday, told TPM the group 'went in about 30 minutes ago' and hadn’t necessarily planned to enter the memorial if it was closed.

'We didn’t have a definite plan, so we knew we were going to come here and just see what was going on and if we were going to be able to go in,' said Walton in a phone interview."

Other Republican leaders should take the hint from Rep. Palazzo and show some f*cking spine. Stick to the plan of defunding ObamaCare. Flood the media with the truth of this disastrous piece of legislation. And let the country know exactly whose fault this totally avoidable shutdown really is.

"Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he believed the Park Service opened the gates. Rep Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) said the congressmen did it. Rep. Steven M. Palazzo (R-Miss.) said the barricades just seemed to part.

'I’m not going to enforce the "no stopping or standing" sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans,' said a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name. 'I’m a veteran myself.'

'It’s the best civil disobedience we’ve seen in Washington for a long time,' Huizenga told the veterans."

Well, that kinda sucked...Bucs lose 13-10

It looked like the qb change might do the Bucs some good for most of the game Sunday, but in the end it was another loss, 13-10 to the Arizona Cardinals.

Glennon looked like a rookie, going 24-43 for 193 yds, 1 td and 2 ints, for a qb rating of 54.4

eesh!

The defense looked stout, keeping Carson Palmer and Larry Fitzgerald in check most of the day. But a late interception deep in Bucs territory was the killer.

Glennon didn't get a lot of reps with the first team, so he's a bit unfamiliar with the starting receivers. He seems to have a good arm and nice touch on the short stuff. Schiano didn't air him out much, hard to say if that was a good thing or not. His footwork on handoffs and fakes could use some work. Maybe they can find Steve DeBerg and bring him in to tutor Glennon on that stuff 'cause DeBerg was the best for that.

Oh well. On to the next game  :-(

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And a word about the Josh Freeman debacle -- Freeman and his agent are doing their best to tear the Bucs apart on the way out the door. Let's face it, and I've said this before, these world beating stats that Freeman and his supporters like to tout were compiled against prevent defenses in the fourth quarter of games where the Bucs offense had been shut down for three quarters. That's hardly something to hang your hat on.

I've seen people crabbing about how Schiano can't coach in the pros. Well thing is, his staff is almost entirely made up of coaches from the pros. He didn't bring in a staff of college guys to run the team. Most importantly, his offensive coordinator is the former qb coach of the Giants. You know, the guy who coached Eli Manning. Maybe you've heard of him? I think he might have a couple of Super Bowl MVP awards. Might be the guy who coached him knows a thing or two about quarterbacks. And if he's in Schiano's ear about Freeman not being the guy, then I'm putting my money on what the coach says. Not some newspaper writer or blogger who's never played a down of pro ball in his life.

Freeman's own teammates refused to vote him captain this year. The kid missed the team photo session and his own kids camp. That's hardly the sign of a dedicated player. Freeman says he wasn't feeling wanted by the team, so . . . pout.

I'm saying . . . you're getting paid motherf*cker! How about you man up and earn your salary and quit whining! Noted Buc failure Sean King is on the radio saying the team deserted Freeman and he's got all this talent, blah, blah . . .

What exactly are King's bonifides for barking like this again? Couldn't hold the starting job on a lousy Bucs team? Yeah. I'm real interested in his opinion.

If Freeman thinks this petulant whining in the press is going to win him a job with another team, either he's kidding himself or getting bad advice from his agent. No one wants to bring in a trouble maker with marginal talent to start with. I don't know what Freeman's college degree is in, but I hope he's got a fall back career, 'cause he might be b*tching his way right out of the NFL.

Then again, maybe he can do a radio show with Sean King.

Joanna Krupa isn't fooling me

Joanna Krupa went out in the yard to play with her cute little dog wearing skin-tight stretch jeans and a top that was apparently made by the same folks who make hospital gowns:

'Cause as soon as she bent over . . . showtime!

Now setting aside the fact that I'm totally impressed at how she can bend over in those tight-ass jeans and not spill any belly over the waistband, you can't tell me she didn't know what else was going to spill out of that absurd top:

And she sure spent plenty of time bent over judging by all the paparazzi pics that have surfaced. So yeah, I'm not falling for that whole "accidental exposure" bit this time. No siree, I'm on to her game here.

Mike Glennon era begins for the Buccaneers

As I mentioned the other day, I was expecting Josh Freeman to lost his job as starting QB for the Bucs and today the team dropped the hammer on him officially. From the Bucs website:

"Mark Dominik and I spent a lot of time together in some intense meetings trying to decide what’s best for our football team," said Schiano. "We got with our ownership when we came to a conclusion as a group, we made the decision organizationally that we’re going to make a change at quarterback and now Mike Glennon is our starting quarterback. Mark and I believe that this gives us the best chance to win today. We've lost eight of nine games and haven’t played particularly well on offense in the last nine games. That’s something that, although it isn’t completely the quarterback's fault [and] I understand that, that position touches the ball every play."

Glennon's resume from NC State:

Playing in 36 games and starting the last 26, Glennon put up 7,411 yards and 63 touchdowns on 646-of-1,069 passing. He took over the starting job for the Wolfpack after Russell Wilson, now the starting quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, transferred to Wisconsin. Glennon, Wilson and Philip Rivers, the current starter for the San Diego Chargers, are the only three NC State passers ever to complete 300 or more passes in a season. Glennon and Rivers are the only two to post a 4,000-yard campaign for the Wolfpack. As a senior in 2012, Glennon completed 330 of 564 attempts for 4,031 yards and 31 touchdowns. [from the Bucs website]

Schiano says going to the rookie QB is not a case of the team giving up on the season saying: "Not this rookie quarterback, not in my opinion...I think he gives us the best chance to win Sunday, that’s why we’re doing it."

Let's hope so.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. premiere

Shorter review -- should have gone for the two hour premiere.

Longer review -- 'Cause way too much info in the first episode. I'm wondering if this is Joss Whedon post Dollhouse and Firefly, where he's afraid to take his time fleshing out characters and backstories because the show might not last. If so, more's the pity, because I think this show is just too busy from the start.

Agent Coulson isn't dead from the Avengers movie. Or perhaps he is. Maybe this Coulson is a clone or a robot frame housing Coulson's awareness, or god only knows what. All we know is that he really wasn't in Tahiti recovering from his supposedly mortal wounds at the hands of Loki. And he doesn't know it, so shhhhhh.

We've got the inevitable update on the trendy geek person, this time it's two people -- a guy and a girl with a combined name of FitzSimmons, who do all the wild techno/geek stuff. Ass-kicking gal (asian, of course) hiding out from field ops for some reason. Ultra-tough guy with a soft spot . . . maybe. New recruit from the trendy hacker/activist (think Anonymous, or rather, how they see themselves, minus the reality of thuggish lawlessness and Guy Fawlkes masks) community. And the yummy Agent Hill is back, played by Cobie Smulders, who looks like she's put on a few pounds since The Avengers.

And a black ops plane, ridiculously obtrusive black vehicles with the S.H.I.E.L.D. name and logo on the side (real stealthy there guys), and a flying early sixties Corvette. Oh yeah, and a possibly continuous villain group, this time mixing gamma radiation, alien dna, super soldier serum, and other goodies to create their own superheroes but instead making crazy people who explode when they get mad.

*whew*

Don't get me wrong, I liked the show. It was just way too frenetic for me in the first episode. Plenty of cool dialog -- I liked Coulson's line about people confusing "new" with "improved." They dumped a tag line during the previews for next week's show saying you can't afford to miss the last few minutes of any show. That's clever.

Update:
Ahh, I see now...the tag was not to miss the last minute of "next week's" show, because it turned out there was a cameo from Samuel L. Jackson. Very cool. I wonder if that means there will be other cameos from the movie cast?

I hope the show works, just to give me something to geek out about in between big budget movies. And I like/respect Whedon's work, so I'd like to see him succeed on the small screen.

Plus, he's always given us some really hot gals in his shows, which is nice:

Looks like someone's feeling left out

What with Miley and Lindsay and all these other celeb and Hollywood chicks getting so much ink these days, looks like Paris Hilton is itching to get in on all the fun. What to do? Book a shoot with the Dollar General Tyler Shields -- Terry Richardson, of course:

At least I think that's a new pic. I'm sure I'd remember if Paris had put out work with ole pervy before. Looks sort of mild there though. Wonder if advancing years has tempered her edgy side a bit?

Miley Cyrus at iHeart Radio

Presented without comment because . . . seriously, this defies commentary: