Jury Duty, Rush, Paradise Hotel BS

Yesterday I was called for Jury Duty. The nice part is the courthouse is walking distance from our office. I reported at 8:15 as instructed and told I was on the jury list for Judge Baker. Around 8:45 the Judge came in and explained that he had 3 trials that day, 2 of them have settled out of court and the third may also settle. GREAT!!! He said he would know by 9:30. We got word around 9:25 that the case had settled! Cool, we can go right? NOPE. The other Judge had a trial and even though he had an entire set of jurors set aside for his pool, we still had to stay until that jury was picked. It made little sense to me since they had of at least 50 to pick 11 jurors from but whatever. So we sat, sat for nearly another 4 hours. Finally around 1 pm they let us leave. I read more magazines than I ever have. Dumb. At least I am off the hook for another year.

Rush Limbaugh got blasted for comments he made regarding Donovan McNabb and how his value to the team has been hyped because he is a black QB. I DO agree with the basic premise that McNabb is not nearly as good as he has been played up to be. Not even in the same ballpark. It also may be true that this may be partially an attempt by the league and/or media to promote black QB’s. I mean what the hell, they have a REQUIREMENT for teams to interview black coaches for positions, why is it so outrageous to think they would have reasons to push the black QB in the league? Personally I don’t care if he is black or white but I do care that he has gotten far too much credit for the recent success of the Eagles. If you look at his statistics he is really an average at best NFL QB. I’m no Rush fan however. I heard this morning that he has been hooked on painkillers even though he has preached for years how drug users should be deported. Hypocrite.

DISCLAIMER: Reality TV dumbness to follow.
I have been watching Paradise Hotel for most of the summer. Last night was the finale. The final 4 were Dave & Charla along with Keith & Tara. These 4 have been allies throughout the game. Dave is a weird looking flabby guy that has been very attracted to Charla through out the show. Charla has never returned the feelings and has labeled Dave as her best friend instead. She repeatedly did and said things that hurt Dave’s feelings but he kept coming back for more since he was so enamored with her. Last night the kicked off guests voted for the winners. As a twist they reversed the couples so Keith was with Charla and Dave was with Tara. They had to vote for a COUPLE. Dave played the game in a sneaky manner and it was successful. He had to to have any chance to get to the end. Of course this made many of the victims of his plan seek revenge. So the partner switch made it easy, Charla and Keith won. 250,000 each, but there was one final twist. They had the option to take 125,000 for themselves and give the other 125 to their partner, or they can keep it all. Keith of course split the money with Tara since they helped each other to the end and it only makes sense to split the prize. Then comes Charla, Charla the one who has stomped on Dave’s feelings all show, Charla the one who would have never got to the end without Dave’s support and help. Of course she will split the money with Dave, it’s a no-brainer right? NOPE. The bitch asks Dave if he would hate her if she keeps all the money. Of course the only answer Dave can give is “Of course not…” although you could tell he was fighting back his true feelings of “You f’in bitch! You are going to screw me again??!!!” I could not believe she kept it all. She played him along the entire show acting like his friend and then decides to keep all the money at the end. It was terrible. That rotten bitch.