- The free ride is over, babies. For too long, you’ve coasted along on your cuteness and gravy-trained the success of your parents or guardians. Free food, lodging and entertainment all based on you bringing what exactly to the table? You poop in your own pants, you vomit on whatever is in your immediate vicinity and you can't even talk to let the rest of us know when you have a problem. So far, almost no one has figured out a way to force babies to contribute something of worth to the world. Credit fitness instructor Missy Isom of Cornelius, N.C. for figuring out a puzzle that others could not solve. Isom was inspired after giving birth to her first daughter. She hated the idea of going to workout classes or the gym and leaving her young daughter behind - i.e. the baby guilt-tripping her, yet another way these tiny gravy-trainers get their way. Rather than sacrifice either time with her daughter or her physical fitness, she found a way to combine the two: Moms Evolution. "It was very important for me to bond with my daughter when she was first born. So that's how I developed Moms Evolution where we can have a workout and have that bonding time," Isom said. She began working with Cornelius-based Kadi-Fit and started a program where mothers are encouraged to come and bring their babies to use in the workout routine. In the class, mothers are encouraged to use their babies as weights as they lay on their backs and do what's compared to a bench press with the baby as the weight. It’s a great idea because now the babies actually have to do something to earn their keep. It’s also a solid idea because most experts believe exercising soon after child-birth can help curb issues with post-partum depression. A true win-win, plus the babies learn the value of exercise early on in life. New mothers can have other new mothers as a sort of exercise support group. The class meets every Monday and Thursday and probably should get together more often lest these babies get the idea that they don’t need to contribute something of worth to earn their keep………
- Top 10 lists are typically lame. Publications, websites and TV shows come up with them to generate conversation and draw eyeballs to their product, but the lists rarely have any substantive value. But every now and then a list is actually noteworthy and the poll by Forbes magazine on the 10 most-disliked athletes in professional sports qualifies. The reason this particular list matters is the guy who landed in the No. 4 spot. That would be Detroit Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh, who ranked as the fourth most-disliked athlete just four months after finishing first in a separate Forbes poll of the most-liked players in the NFL with an appeal score of 71 percent. In the span of four months, Suh went from being almost universally beloved to being loathed by fans. But that will happen when you deliberately stomp on an opposing player during a game, which Suh did to Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith during the Lions' nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game this past season. It will also happen when during your two-game suspension for said stomp, you wrap your car around a tree and (allegedly) instruct injured passengers to lie about what happened and not seek medical treatment when they need it because it would be bad for your reputation. Still, those actions were not enough to vault Suh past the top three entrants on the list: Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick and Tiger Woods (60 percent disliked for the top two spots) and New York Jets receiver Plaxico Burress. Vick and Burress have both spent time in jail in the past five years for dogfighting and shooting themselves in the leg with their poorly holstered gun, respectively, so that’s solid company for Suh. Woods was revealed two years ago as one of the world’s greatest philanderers and liars, something Suh hasn’t done, at least that we know of. Yet 51 percent of respondents disliked him despite the Lions’ on-field turnaround that included a playoff appearance for the first time in more than a decade. Mix in his charitable efforts, including donating $2.6 million to Nebraska, his alma mater, and one might assume Suh had done enough to still be loved. Umm…..nope. The last six spots on the list, in order, went to: former Mr. Kim Kardashian/New Jersey Nets forward Kris Humphries, NBA stars LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, former NFL star/current Indoor Football League receiver Terrell Owens, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and non-athlete/ NASCAR driver Kurt Busch…………
- A whopping 10 months had passed since a legislator somewhere in the world was caught watching porn during a legislative session. Not since Indonesian legislator Arifinto, a lawmaker for the Prosperous Justice Party, was exposed for porn-ing it up on his tablet during a legislative session has an elected representative given a huge middle finger to both his constituents and common decency by checking out some quality XXX action while he should have been doing his job. The drought has been broken by three Indian lawmakers who resigned Wednesday after they were filmed allegedly watching porn on a cell phone during a heated debate at a state assembly in Bangalore, southern India. Lakshman Savdi, the minister for cooperation, and C.C. Patil, the minister for women and children, were part of a trio captured on TV footage broadcast Tuesday apparently watching a porn film clip on Savdi's cell phone at the legislative assembly for the central Indian state of Karnataka. The best part of the entire story is these pervs watching porn while their counterparts are intensely debating serious issues with great relevance to their constituents. Those fellow legislators actually seemed to care about the issue but these freaks could only think of……well, getting their freak on. Krishna B. Palemar, the minister for ports and the environment, allegedly provided the clip and not long after footage of their misconduct surfaced, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules Karnataka, ordered the three men to resign. In their defense, the three men have denied the accusations and a spokesman for the party said an inquiry would take place and that the "truth will be out" soon. How much more truthful can any information be than raw video footage of three perverts hitting up some hot online vixens while they’re supposed to be governing their state………..
- Space taxis are big business and just because NASA’s budget is being slashed by the Obama administration doesn’t mean the agency isn't still interested in ways to shoot things into space. In fact, it intends to provide $300 million to $500 million each to at least two companies over 21 months starting in August to create designs for vehicles capable of delivering crews to and from the International Space Station. That job was previously completed by NASA astronauts on missions to space, but those aren't happening any longer and someone else needs to supply the ISS. Russia’s troubled space program isn't reliable enough and someone needs to step up and fill the void. The two companies NASA selects will also be asked to develop plans for certifying their vehicles to carry astronauts and designing optional milestones into their proposals for additional precertification work after the initial 21-month period, according to agency officials. Their work will be part of the third round of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which is on shaky ground because federal lawmakers provided a scant $406 million for the effort in 2012, less than half of what the agency requested. Even if the funding is secured and the space taxis are designed and go into production, NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Ed Mango doesn’t expect an initial crewed demonstration flight to low Earth orbit to take place until the latter half of this decade, with regular commercially operated flights to the International Space Station beginning around 2017. Should funding continue to decline, those dates could be pushed back further. Mango’s comments on the project came during an industry forum at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Feb. 7, which was an optimal place to the forum because it’s not like NASA has any important shuttle launches to prepare for in the near (or distant) future. At the event, NASA released the formal solicitation for the Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) procurement. Companies wishing to get in on the bidding have until March 23. There will be a pre-proposal meeting at Kennedy Feb. 14 for prospective builders and the two winners ill develop an integrated system featuring a crew vehicle and launch vehicle, with work to be completed May 31, 2014. From there, NASA would certify its chosen systems to carry astronauts. All prospective space vehicles must be certified by the agency before they can fly astronauts. Time to break out those crayons, colored pencils and graph paper and get to work designing your space taxi…………
- Tim Burton has never been normal. Even for someone in the reality-free world that is Hollywood, Burton is a member of the lunatic fringe and his bizarre creativity has led to some of the oddest, most visually unique films of the past two decades. Leave it to Burton to imagine a cinematic world where Abraham Lincoln is taking a page from Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s book. Details for “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” are beginning to leak out and the film will be based on a novel from Seth Grahame-Smith, known for mixing history with modern drama. The concept might work in novel form, but will it translate to the big screen? Burton will be leading the way, so that should lend the project a certain amount of credibility. Benjamin Walker and Rufus Sewell will star in the film, with Walker in the title role. He previously starred in Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers” and will soon appear in a dramatization of John Milton's epic poem 'Paradise Lost' along with Bradley Cooper and former “Prison Break” star Dominic Purcell. In an interview about “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter,” Walker said the story is "told through the structure of Lincoln's actual life. You not only see these huge fight scenes and great moments of drama, but you get sort of the greatest hits of Lincoln's life.You get a portrait of this man, as well as a thriller." Other sources have claimed the vampires in the movie will be depicted as something of a band of retro terrorists of the 1800s and Walker painted a vivid picture of the world in which these blood-sucking extremists will exist. "This evil moves among us, and maybe lives next door. It's an ideology that we don't fully understand, but they live by it,” he explained. The project is scheduled for release in June…………
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