The Conservative Buckeye

So my Brother-in-Law Bryan has been begging me to watch this show BSG for a while now. Well yesterday he let me borrow his first season set of BSG DVDs. I wasnt planning on watching much of it just the first couple of shows. I started at 2:30 P.M. on Monday and finished the whole first season plus the mini-series at 3:30 P.M. today (Tuesday). I must say that I am very impressed with the show and how well it is written. I love the suspense and the not knowing who is a cylon and who isnt. I like most of the characters but espeacially like Lt. Sharon even though she is clearly a cylon I honestly think she is a good cylon at heart and by the time this show is finished I believe she will be the help they need in defeating the cylons. I wish I could write more about the overall plot of the show at this time but I am still trying to get a grasp on a lot of stuff and dont want to ruin any of the plots at this point.

There are 2 things I dont like about the show though.

First, in the original BSG that I saw when I was a child. The little boy was more of a prominent character and he had this great robot dog named muffit that looked like a bear or a lion I think. The boy has been seen maybe 5 times in the first season and he doesnt have a dog. Give me my dog BSG writers.

Second, is the over the top and sometimes very graphic sex scenes. I understand they need a few to spice up the show. But, everyone in the show is doing it. And that blond cylon and doctor are doing it every time they are on the show. All I need to say to prove my point is 4 sex sceens in the first 24 minutes of the mini-series.

Overall I give the show a 7.5 out of 10. I hope the show gets better and they stay true to the overall storylines. I hope everyone will give this show a chance and give it a looksie. It is on Friday nights at 10 P.M. on the sci-fi channel.

P.S. Bryan dont forget you no longer can question the gilmore girls and the raunchyness and lack of overall morals of that show. It is like comparing Bambi (Gilmore Girls) to a Porno (Battlestar Galactica).

Let me start of by saying that I’m not a paid employee of the Amazon Grill.

Some friends and myself went to the Amazon Grill for lunch today. The Amazon Grill is an all you can eat Brazilian Barbeque. The eatery is located in the Crosswoods shopping center in the old Macaroni Grill building. The owners made few changes to the inside look of the resturant. When you walk in there is a large dining room with a huge hot and cold salad bar in the center.

I started off my lunch with a trip to the salad bar and selected the 8 hot dishes offered. Those were all exceptional dishes, but the mashed potatoes stood out above the rest. They were a wonderful grouping of garlic and other seasonings with an optional meat and gravy side. Also included in the hot dishes were bananas fried so delicately as to not cause them to become slimy. The other items were black beans and rice, grilled squash and other delicious choices. I didn’t try any of the 20 or more cold salads or condiments as I did not want to fill up before the meat came. Although on my next trip (which will be very soon), I do promise to try everything.

The main course is a selection of many different types of meat. The meat is served by a number of wait staff carrying swords full of meat. The first meat we received was a beef kabob that was flavorfull and well seasoned and cooked to a medium to medium well. Also on the kabob were peppers and red onions that were equally as delicious. The next piece of meat was a chicken thigh that was well prepared with crispy skin and full of flavor. The only drawback to the chicken was the bone still in. The next wave was a chorizo sausage link that most in the group did not enjoy so much, however, I enjoyed it. We also received 2 or 3 different types of steak which were all delightfull.

The next meat we received deserves a paragraph all of it’s own. It was a most enjoyable, incredibally tasty, moist and tender turkey breast medallion wrapped with bacon. It was cooked so perfectly that I would give it an 11 out of 10 score. The bacon was crispy, but not burnt. The turkey was moist and seasoned and quite possibly the best piece of meat I have ever eaten.

The Amazon Grill has been open for less than a week and they are still trying to work out a lot of bugs. The service was a bit slow as they didn’t have enough servers for the number of people wanting to eat. Our waitress was on the top of her game. We never went without a full drink or a clean plate and when we asked for anything specific, it was delivered in a more than timely manner. We also were helped out throughout lunch by a manager who was truly at our beck and call.

The group of friends I was with gave scores ranging from 8 to 9.5. My own rating of this wonderfull new restaurant is a 9.5, it leaves little room for improvement, but it truly is one of the best new eateries in the area.

The lunch bill was $12 for the buffet and drinks were $2. A 15% gratuity was added since there were 7 of us, but I was so happy with the overall experiance that I gave her an additional 15% tip. I do look forward to the dinner experiance which will include a larger selection of salad bar items and meats including lamb, fish, and seafood.

I truly would recommend this restaurant to anyone who enjoys a wonderful eating experiance as much as I do.

Richard Hatch, who won $1 million in the first season of Survivor, was found guilty yesterday of failing to pay taxes on his winnings.He was handcuffed and taken into custody after U.S. District Judge Ernest Torres called him a potential flight risk.

He also was convicted of evading taxes on $327,000 he earned as co-host of a Boston radio show and $28,000 in rent on property he owned. He was acquitted of seven bank, mail and wire-fraud charges.

Hatch, 44, faces up to 13 years in prison and a fine of $600,000. Sentencing is scheduled for April 28.

Jurors deliberated for less than a day after more than a week of testimony.

Besides the tax charges, prosecutors accused Hatch of using money donated to his charitable foundation, Horizon Bound, an outdoors program he planned to open for troubled youth. He allegedly spent the money on expenses including tips to a limousine driver, dry cleaning and tens of thousands of dollars on improvements to a house he owned.

Hatch testified that he thought producers were supposed to pay his Survivor taxes and said the donations he took from his charity were far less than the money he had poured into it.

With a bust in the balance, Kentucky’s governor is siding with Colonel Sanders over Pamela Anderson.Gov. Ernie Fletcher wrote the “Stacked” actress to say a bust of the KFC founder will stay in the Kentucky Capitol, despite Anderson’s claim that Sanders is a symbol of cruelty to chickens.

“Colonel Sanders remains a Kentucky icon,” Fletcher wrote last week. “His success story has been an inspiration to many. The industry he began has employed hundreds of thousands of workers over the years. His business and his legacy have been good for Kentucky.”

Anderson has been involved in a public relations campaign with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to raise awareness of what she calls abuse of chickens in processing plants that supply poultry to the Louisville-based chicken chain.

The Judiciary Committee favorably recommended Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate on a party-line vote Tuesday, moving the conservative jurist one step closer to joining the high court.

All 10 Republicans voted for Alito, while all eight Democrats voted against him. The partisan vote was almost preordained, with 15 of the 18 senators announcing their votes even before the committee’s session began.

The full Senate expects to take a final vote on Alito’s nomination before the end of the week. That vote is also expected to follow along party lines, with only one Democrat — Ben Nelson of Nebraska — coming out so far in support of Alito. Republicans hold the balance of power in the Senate 55-44, with one independent.

Senate Republicans say Alito is a good choice for the nation’s highest court.

“Like America’s founders, Judge Alito clearly believes in self-government, that the people and not judges should make law, and that judges have an important role but must know and stay in their proper place,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record), R-Utah.

But Democrats are fretting that the 55-year-old jurist and former lawyer for the Reagan administration will swing the court to the right and help overturn precedent-setting decisions like Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s abortion rights case, although he refused to talk about that decision at his confirmation hearing.

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Ohio State landed another prize recruit today in 4 star WR Raymond Small. He is projetd to play bh oen and fnse for the Bucks. His final 2 schools came down to USC Trojans and The Ohio State University. He was very wise in choosing his home state school and will soon become a member of the family known as the Buckeyes.

The Buckeyes had a great week last week with wins over #13 Wisconsin at home and at Penn St. They moved up in both polls this week to the #16 spot in both major polls. This week they have big games at Iowa and at home against Floida A&M. I hope the team will get some much needed fan support this week as it has been lacking recently at home games. This is a very talented team with great potential and they deserve the same type of support as our Football team.

P.S. O-H-I-O GO BUCKS