Worst Person of the Week 7/20/10

OK Folks it is time once again to find out who the worst person of the week is. Last weeks run away winner was Mel Gibson who really had no contest. This week will probably be a bit more interesting. So here we go with this weeks nominees:

The Cast of Jersey Shore - Who is asking for more money? These guys are. As if MTV couldn't’t take a trip down to Wildwood and throw out a net and get the same cast. (or better) Add that to the fact that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is writing a self help book. (yes that is no typo) and these guys deserve a nomination here for WP.

Paris Hilton - Paris is ticked off at stories she was arrested AGAIN for possession of marijuana when in fact she was only just questioned and released. Imagine that Paris angry about media coverage. Yeesh. Paris is always WP worthy but getting detained for pot 2 times in less than 10 days is special even for her. Oh and as you can see to the left she was photographed topless this weekend too. Double Yeesh.

George Steinbrenner - A vote for George is more like a lifetime achievement award for one of the surliest meanest nastiest owners in all of professional sports. Yes he passed away last week leaving a nation of Yankee fans in mourning but that doesn't change history and turn him into a nice guy. I think George deserves some consideration and he probably would be proud of it.

Rachel Uchitel - Rachel is now having to go into celebrity rehab with Dr. Drew. For someone whose chief claim to fame is sleeping with Tiger Woods and then taking bribe money (a lot of it) not to blab about it to the press shouldn't your 15 minutes already be up? Of course not. She is now probably hooked on pills and needs rehab. Tick Tock Rachel Tick Tock.

There you have it folks. Lets here your comments and please vote in the poll for this Worst Person of the Week. Who should it be?

-Doc

Fantasy Football is open!

Doc's Blog and Twitter Fantasy Football league is open! I emailed the people whose email addresses I had saved in my yahoo mail the information but there are others whose information I don't have. Please send me an email to docnolz at yahoo dot com or DM me on Twitter if you have interest in joining.

Here are the particulars:

FREE to join and play including live real time scoring updates
12-14 teams depending on interest
Head to Head Play
2 Divisions
6 teams make the playoffs with the division winners getting a bye week.
The draft takes place offline so you will simply have to rank your players.
The Champion not only gets bragging rights but also gets a really sweet trophy for their blog.

Comment or email me any questions and of course if you want in I need your email address. Go ahead and sign up if you got one of the invites and do your research and pre-rank your players. The draft will take place late in August.

Good luck to everyone and Im looking forward to a great season!

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 7/17/10

Have a great weekend!

-Doc

Going Camping...

Going to be off the rest of the week because we are heading off to the North Carolina mountains tomorrow to go camping with some good friends of ours. Headed to a place called Julian Price Park which sounds lovely except for the lack of electricity. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one of these people who think camping involves a Holiday Inn however I would like an electrical outlet to plug in a radio. Everyone has said this place doesn't even have lights in the bathroom. Solution? I went out to BJ's and bought a whole ton of batteries yesterday.
I am really looking forward to the trip. I haven't been camping in years and my son has of course never been. I think he is old enough to actually enjoy it now. I am also hoping to get some fishing done... possibly teaching my son as well. Now since he has the attention span of a flea for "boring" things like watching a hook in the water my prospects aren't great. I am just hoping that at some point we are able to land one fish so he can see how it's done.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and I hope to have some pictures to share next week. Pray for no rain!

-Doc

P.S. Don't forget to vote for the Worst Person of the week

Something tells me I am really glad I have never seen a sign like this...

Who knows, might be a prison or something... YIKES!

-Doc

Worst Person of the Week 7/13/10

OK, we are going to start a new feature here at YJKOBT called the Worst Person of the Week. This new feature (with apologies to Keith Olbermann) will allow the readers of this blog to vote and decide which current news maker/celebrity is the worst person of the week. Hopefully you will enjoy.

This weeks nominees are as follows:

MEL GIBSON - Mel is nominated this week because he seems to have found himself in a dispute with his baby momma in which he launches into a racist, domestic assault filled, threat laced tirade that she catches on tape.

LINDSAY LOHAN - Miss Lohan finds herself a nominee because she continues to behave like a juvenile and has been sentenced to jail for breaking her parole. Her response? Drawing F-You to the judge on her fingernails.

ANNA CHAPMAN - She may look good but this vixen is actually a spy for Mother Russia and this past week she was captured but deftly managed to allude punishment. She was deported back to Russia but I have a funny feeling we will hear from her again.

LEBRON JAMES - Oh yes, Last but not least the scourge of the earth Lebron James makes the list for 2 reasons. First because he dared to leave Cleveland in the lurch and second for the cold hearted way that he did it. Anytime a hometown hero gets his jersey burned in effigy he deserves a not for worst person of the week.

There are the nominees. Please give me your thoughts. Which is the worst person and why? Comments and lively debate are always welcome here at YJKOBT. Please also vote in the poll which will be open for a few days so we can crown this weeks Worst Person!

-Doc

Weekend and an Old Watch

We had a pretty good weekend that included among other things repainting the entire downstairs and upstairs hall of our house. Now don't get me wrong I didn't do any of the painting. I spent the day with my son out of the house keeping him away from the paint while my wife, sister, parents, and sister's boyfriend did the hard work. The house looks great and I had my fill of Chic-Fil-A seeing as my son wanted to play in their play area for hour upon hour.
I also had a semi-revelation on Saturday. I realized that one of the reasons I don't have as much to blog about is that I tweet pretty much everything that is going on. Now I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing I just need to remember to hold back a thing or two so I can have something to blog about. Pretty smart huh? I had something on Saturday that I really wanted to tweet about but I saved it. So here goes.
One of the things I wanted to get done while I had some time with my son on Saturday was take him to Bass Pro Shop so he could pick out his very first sleeping bag. We are going camping this coming weekend, you know roughing it with tents and campfires and stuff and we needed to pick up some new gear. I went up in the attic to check for sleeping bags and could only find one not two. This called for a more thorough search and while I didn't find the missing sleeping bag I did locate something that I thought I had lost years ago. My airplane pilots watch!
How sweet is this? It was in the bottom of my old college trunk up in the attic and I know I haven't seen or worn it in at least 10 years! The battery was dead of course (probably the reason it ended up in the trunk in the first place) but bonus, we were heading to the mall and I could get a new battery installed. I did and check it out, it's like my old watch is now my new watch. I'm wearing it right now!
Have you ever found something like this that you had forgotten you had and it was like brand knew when you did? Tell me about it...

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 7/10/10

Have a great weekend!

-Doc

How do you determine the greater good?

Many of you know that I have always been fascinated by serial killers or more precisely the police work and investigations that go into tracking them down. This week I was interested to read about how the LAPD has finally tracked down and arrested a suspect they believe is the "Grim Sleeper" who was an active serial killer in South Los Angeles for 25 years.

This comes as great news to the families of the victims of this predator as well as the community as a whole however the arrest has prompted a debate about the tactics used to track down Lonnie D. Franklin Jr. the accused. The police were led to him by what is known as a familial DNA search. Broken down simply this is what happened. Police had DNA evidence linking the killings together but no suspect to match it too. What they did was initiate DNA searches of prisoners in the California penal system who had similar DNA to the suspect not exact matches. Lonnie Franklin's son Christopher was incarcerated and they were able to match a partial DNA profile from him. This led them to his

father the suspect. From there they tailed him and gained a sample of his DNA from a discarded pizza crust and found it was a match to the profile of The Grim Sleeper.

Pretty neat stuff huh? The police think it is. They are touting that "It is the first time an active familial search has been used to solve a homicide case in the United States". I thought so too until I started thinking a little bit more about it. There is just something that strikes the civil libertarian part of me wrong about a DNA database of families DNA that can be compared to others. Where does this database end? What lengths will it be used for? Sure catching a serial killer serves the greater good but what if the DNA database starts being used to track down other types of crimes? What about rape? Yes that probably serves the greater good but where does it stop? Is auto theft a crime that we are willing to search DNA databases to solve? How about shoplifting, or failing to pay child support?

There are other concerns too. Would this be applied fairly? The article makes the following point. "Those who oppose the technique argue that there are inherent privacy concerns, and that it serves, in essence, as a form of racial profiling because a higher proportion of inmates are members of minorities". I can see this point as well.

I guess my concern about the whole process is how it will be used and who may get caught up in the process. This seems very "Big Brother-ish" to me and I worry about overzealous police relying too much on DNA and not on old fashioned police work. What happens someday when someone is set free because some slick lawyer gets the right judge to make a ruling and where would that leave other cases using the same techniques? I'm happy that potentially the Grim Sleeper is off the streets but sure am concerned about all the questions it raises. I wonder what you all think?

-Doc

Well that is HELP-ful...

-Doc

So Uninspired These Days

Judging from a lot of what I have read recently it seems there is a huge case of un-inspiration going on around here. There are a lot of hiatus, on break, or just plain packed up and shut down blogs that I have seen and I am not sure if this disease is contagious or not.

If it is then I seem to have caught it. Where are the fresh ideas? Why is nothing as funny as usual? Why is the World Cup no where near as blog worthy as The Olympics were? Is it just a summertime lull or has this blogging thing past it's prime? Why can't football season hurry up and get here?

I have no answers only questions.


-Doc

Which one is fake?

You tell me...

(I kinda think the both are)

-Doc

The Declaration Of Independence

We should always treasure our National Documents and in my opinion they get no more important than this one signed 234 years ago today.

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Happy Independence Day Everybody !!

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 7/3/10

Enjoy your weekend!

-Doc

I'm Sorry but I just had to...

Couldn't help but post this one...

(sure am glad I don't live there)

-Doc

Quite Possibly the Yummiest thing Ever.

In a match that could only be made in heaven (Or North Carolina where both of these products were originally created) I think I have found what may just be the yummiest thing ever. Cheerwine filled Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Yes even though it may put me into a sugar coma I can never fully recover from I think that I will have to try this new treat in the very near future.

For those of you not familiar with Cheerwine, it is a wonderful sparking cherry-ish soda that was invented in Salisbury, NC where I grew up which is teaming itself up with Winston-Salem based Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I will have to report back once I have had one as to exactly how blissfully excellent it is, but I must apologize to you in advance that unless you live in North or South Carolina you won't be able to try this delicious treat because they are apparently only making it available in just this area.

I found a picture of one of these things and figured I would share with you...

Just another wonderful reason that I live in the best place on earth, North Carolina. Thank you for letting me share with you all.

-Doc

I have a question about this Russian Spy case...

Why oh why did I ever decide against that CIA training?

Meet Anna Chapman. Alleged Russian spy, femme fatale, Apparent Cookie Monster lover, all around hottie, and my new international babe of mystery. I am still in the initial phase of my research but I plan on doing my best to help the US avert any international crises over this spy case. More to come on my new celebrity crush I am sure...

-Doc

It's coming... Fantasy Football

I know it's not even quite July yet but I wanted to gauge the feelings of blog readers on fantasy football for this fall.
It's fun, free, and easy to play. I am looking to set up a league for all my blog and twitter friends to play in. I haven't decided yet yet which platform to use but it will probably be either yahoo or CBSSportsline.
The league can have as few as 8 or as many as 20 teams to play so there is plenty of room for all. Our league will be set up to auto draft which means that you will rank your favorite players and the site will pick them for you so we do not all have to be online at the same time. The league format will be Head to head which means that each week you will play against a specific opponent instead of the whole league. Depending on the number of teams we will look at divisions and playoff format to determine the champion. You will be able to set your lineup ahead of time so playing will not take up a lot of your time. however it will be fun. (Yes, Dana and Kimmeh I said fun and not too serious)
Please leave a comment letting me know your interest and as we get closer to August I will let everyone know how and when to sign up.

-Doc

Finally a good place for a Soccer goal

Mt. Cat sent me this one....
He Shoots he scores... GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLL !!!

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the Week 6/26/10

Have a great Weekend!

-Doc