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Allen Iverson is traded to Detroit for Chauncy Billups

*BREAKING***  November 3rd, 2008.

Chauncy Billups is going to the Denver Nuggets and Allen Iverson is headed to the Detroit Pistons.  This is a huge trade and makes the NBA western conference even more difficult.  I will have more details as they develop.

Entourage – Season 5 – Episode 8 – First Class Jerk

First off, I need to start off by saying that Jerry Ferrara (Turtle) is actually dating Jamie-Lynn Sigler (Of Sapranos Fame)  Oddly enough, they met on the set while filming this episode and hit it off. 

I had heard Rumors of this, but it has recently been confirmed by Sports Illustrated. I’m proud of my boy representing and pulling some tail!

Honestly after an amazing 7th episode, I would have expected HBO to give Entourage a short Hiatus.  It seemed like the right time.. sort of a mid-season break.  I am really glad they didn’t. This season has been absolutely amazing.

Now for the summary:

The episode begins with the crew making their plans to head back to the mainland after their little stint in Hawaii.  Unfortunately, Turtle must buy one first-class seat and three coach seats in order for all of the boys to get back on the same plane.  Turtle wins a small bet and lands the seat in the front.  Through a twist of fate, he ends up to a recently single Jamie-Lynn Sigler.  She is distraught after a recent brake up, and Turtle does his best to cheer her up during the flight.

 After they all land, Turtle’s friends are surprised to see Turtle and Jamie-Lynn still talking.  Once she leaves, Eric and Drama begin harrassing Turtle about the entire situation.  He finally gives in and claims that she gave him a “tug” on the plane.  For the rest of the episode, Drama tells everyone he meets that Turtle is making these wild accusations.

During all of this, Ari is still contemplating the offer he received as Studio Head at Warners.  Dana Gordon is still trying to convince Ari that she should be his number 2.  While Ari is MIA, the entourage receives a call from none other than Josh Weinstein.  The group agrees to meet with Josh but quickly finds out that he is just trying to sandbag them into accepting a television role for Vince.  

Ultimately, the episode ends with Ari setting Dana up with the Studio head position.  In turn, she agrees that she will take care of Vince and put him in “Smokejumpers.”  Everyone heads out that night to celebrate the successes of the day and Jamie-Lynn shows up.  She then confronts Turtle about running around town telling everyone about what happened on the plane.  Drama tries to explain that it was him, but Jamie doesn’t listen.  Turns out that he did tell the truth about what happened – and she would have slept with him.

Once again, I need to give it up to Turtle for being able to pull that amazing girl!

 

HBO airs Entourage every sunday night.

E-Group Rant- Wassup with the Economy

This was a very interesting post from a colleague of mine from my fraternities egroup.  Thought others would enjoy it. 

OK so we have touched on many different things pertaining to Dems, Repubs, Obama, and McCain.  By this time its very clear who is voting for who, although the only person who actually expressed a reason why their voting a certain way is Troy.  Everybody else just says I hate Bush and war so I have to vote for Obama.  Texas may play out to be a very important vote this time around, so think really hard about who your voting for.

This is whats bothering me, 2 things.
First- that stupid wassup video.  Lets go through the dudes and their situations.
Losing my home dude:  Why is he losing his home?  Did a Republican sign him up for a home loan he knew he couldn’t afford, or did he not use his brain and took on to much debt.  This entire situation has Dems and Repubs finger prints all over, but once again we can’t take responsibility for ones self off the table.  How would Obama fix this–by voting for the same fucked up band-aid as McCain.  Hows that working out?
No Insurance dude:  Dude had enough insurance or medical care to get a cast and a neck brace, but not enough to get a $4 bottle of hydrocodone at walmart.  Or did  the Repub. push him down and hurt him, and that’s why he is in pain?  How would Obama fix this– by raising our taxes and socializing the health care industry which has proven to give substandard care i.e. Medicaid, Medicare
Hurricane dude:  This is my favorite, I didn’t know Republicans created hurricanes and Obama will stop them.  Or is it the Repubs fault he lives in a hurricane zone, or the fact that Bush or McCain didn’t go pick him up and take him to safety.  Once again self responsibility.  How would Obama fix this– He will not allow Hurricanes and if one does occur he will drive down and pick each person up, or raise our taxes to rent cars for them.
Stock Market Dude:  Refer to Losing home dude and bailing us out with our own tax dollars.  
Army Dude:  This might be the only good argument.  should we have gone?  doesn’t seem that way, can we leave?  Not now, because we have proper fucked that place.  The crap thing is, that guy in Iraq is going to get on a plane and go to another war with no end in sight.
This is my main issue though.  MONEY.  I like money, and I know each one of you also.  We have a lot of people on this list who work hard and make a nice living doing what you do.  So why would you vote for somebody who flat out has said I want to spread the wealth around?
For those who don’t know this is what that means.  I’m lazy so I like to use valet when I go out, so lets say homeboy runs his ass off and brings my car back and as I’m waiting i see a homeless dude with a sign just sitting there.  I pay homeboy the valet cost, but tell him I’m not going to tip you because I’m giving your tip to the homeless dude because he needs it more than you.  I know he is just sitting there waiting for a handout and your working for your money, but it’s not fair for him to have less than you so i am going to spread the wealth around.  That’s called socialism.  That’s what the government is going to do to all of us, why would you vote for that.  You don’t penalize people for doing well, please somebody help me understand how this works for you.
So then they go on to say, if you make less than 250K/yr your not going to be taxed.  Do I make more than 250/yr now no, will I at some point in my life that’s the plan.  But it won’t come through handouts, it will come through my hard work and sacrifice.  Why should the government take my profit from working harder and pass it around to those who haven’t?
bigger scale:  Some of you work for smaller companies, and those companies are already having trouble in this economy.  What do you think a tax hike will do for those companies and your job security.  If you work for that smaller company you could be casting a vote to get laid off.  I know it sounds dramatic, but honestly if your company has just let people go in the past 6 months how is even less money going to stimulate anything.

Calvin and Hobbes on War.

Here’s a funny little picture from the past.  Calvin and Hobbes were a staple comic of my childhood.  It is always great to look back at the comic I loved dearly and look at it in a new light.  The jokes I laughed at back then have become satire about many issues that have been rehashed in adulthood.  Take a second and check out this classic comic about war.