1 - Complete repudiation of the Republican attack on President Obama in the mid term elections.
2 - Meg Whitman losing despite spending additional 50 million dollars in the last three days.
3 - Carly Fiorina losing her race to incumbent Barbara Boxer and then finding work oversees sorting used hypodermic syringes with needles (gloves not included - actually frowned upon).
4 - Allow Craig Mortensen and Central Asian Institute take command in all manners regarding Pakistan and Afghanistan.
5 - The male members of the Democratic Leadership grow a set of balls and take on their adversaries like they actually exist.
6 - Repeal DADT. Really.
7 - Make Marriage Equality a reality in all fifty states.
8 - Simaltaneous power outage of CNN, MSNBC and FOX News along with all the major broadcast networks starting at stardate - 313836.68 and lasting until stardate -313839.76.
9 - Bring back Better Off Ted on a network that will let it be itself.
10 - Civility be a employable position.
If you can help with any of these outrageous and utterly foolish dreams thank you.
Lindsay Lohan, 24, is all over the news because she's a celebrity drug addict. Nothing will be mentioned by any program about Justin Allen, 23, Brett Linley, 29, Matthew Weikert, 29, Justus Bartett, 27, Dave Santos, 21, Chase Stanley, 21, Jesse Reed, 26, Matthew Johnson, 21, Zachary Fisher, 24, Brandon King, 23, Christopher Goeke, 23 and Sheldon Tate, 27who were all Marines that gave their lives this week withNO MEDIA MENTION.
My second cousin Derek Grubbs posted this on Facebook and asked all his FB friends to re-post. I did and I would ask you to do the same on your social network. I'm asking everyone on my blog list to say each one of these fallen hero's name out loud and give them a silent moment of thanks. Without their sacrifice, we wouldn't even know about poor Lindsay's troubles.
We've finally got there. Anyone can be a TV commentator. It might be on YouTube or their own website or just a low resolution video attached to an email but EVERYONE can be a commentator on TV!!! You don't need an education. As a matter of fact that might be a hindrance. If you do have an education you should ignore it. Especially if you're a baby boomer. Forget all you've learned from living through Viet Nam, race relations, the peace movement, Watergate, women's liberation or Woodstock. Instead plant your head firmly up your ass and then try to talk. What comes out will be crap but that is evidently what advertisers (especially heterosexual males with ED) want to associate themselves with so you will likely succeed!!!
Ignorance now is truth. What you don't know should not intimidate your right to free speech. Go ahead and talk. Make it up as you go along. Go off on tangents and never return to the point you started. Just yak and whatever you say will become the new truth and that will go viral.
What a heady time for stupid people. Finally they are getting compensated for their lack of education and unwillingness to work. It's almost a miracle that so few with so limited an idea of humanity should lead a humanity that is losing its humanity.
Glen Beck says the President of the United States is a racist. Who knew? Rick Sanchez on CNN sent his intrepid reporter to the Abbey in West Hollywood when Prop 8 was overturned. You don't know what the Abbey is? She's our favorite character on NCIS!!! And how about when a little white girl goes missing? Will we ever get enough coverage? Not possible.
On Cable News you can't overreact to a story. Look into the camera and say, "Breaking News!!" and then say, "Let's check in and see if there's is still oil in the Gulf." There was oil in the Gulf BEFORE the spill. You can't go wrong! Go with the visceral images and loop those image again and again and bring in anybody who has ever heard about water or oil and talk endlessly over the images. We never will know when the spill in the Gulf is over. Great job!!!
News is now a montage of images both real and real looking and it doesn't matter which is which. Whatever gets you ratings is what's important. Go with you gut. The bigger the better. Addle your brain with drugs and alcohol. Just keep going like an Energizer bunny!! But don't use lithium!!! It could bring you down man.
I want to join in!!! I have an education (supposedly) but its mostly in Theatre so it was always suspect as to its real world worthiness. But I do have some improv skills and watching the terrific troupe of improv artists/anchors in cable news (with special props to Fox News) and listening to them on talk radio I am empowered to try this myself.
I am empowered but I just don't have the balls (literally) to do it. I'm still in awe of the great pretenders and I'm not sure I could keep bearing false witness with such fidelity. I know someone would call me out and I would crumble. These people don't!! If anything they get more bold and make up new stuff. My admiration for them is without reason. It just feels wrong and I know then its must be inequitable.
Keep it up you morons of the media. Whether your ideology is left or right or nowhere because to have principles is just too confusing, keep up your asinine dialogues and monologues. Mutual masturbation is always fun for someone.
It's time. I'm nearing my 60th year and I selfishly want something to happen before I...well am 60. That will July 25, 2012. Actually that would be a great day for it to happen. I mean it's time now but if he can't do it till then that would be okay. No it wouldn't!!! It needs to be said NOW! No more waiting! No more capitulating! No more reaching out to others to understand the reality that has been with us since the beginning of existence! What is it? What is so important that it can't wait one more day?
I want the President of the United States to say that he
supports gay marriage.
Today would be nice during his weekly YouTube address. It's in the news this week. Yeah today would be perfect.
Political suicide you say? Well his enemies want him dead anyway. What has he got to lose? And tell me what have the Democrats got to lose? Right now they can't take any of the credit for anything good that has happened in the last two years and are seen as responsible for anything bad. You want people to get up in your grill about stuff you didn't do or do you want to change the conversation?
If President Obama made that statement, I believe it would define and galvanize the Democratic party. It would show to the rest of the nation and the world that they are the party of true change. Can you imagine the lift it would bring? The Democrats wouldn't be afraid of anything!!!
Is this dangerous? Damn straight it is. People will want to kill the idea...Literally!! They've been trying to deny and kill gender variance for ten thousand years and we're still HERE!!!!!! But what was it, Mr. President, you said in Atlanta this week?
"And I do want to point out, when you get in your car, when you go forward, what do you do? You put it in “D.” When you want to go back, what do you do? You put it in “R.” "
Well put it in D!!! You stating that you unequivocally support gay marriage will move us forward. We need to hear a President, not a pretender to the Presidency but the actual President say those words.
And I think he wants to do it!
His stand on Prop 8 doesn't make any sense. It's divisive? That's why he opposes it? There's more to it than that. He can't possibly be opposed to gay marriage. I'm afraid that the reality is that he is looking at it politically and it doesn't seem to be the right time because there are so many people still opposed on MORAL grounds.
Supporting Equality has been and always will be the moral high ground.
The President and the Democrats should run to it while they still can get in front of it. Gay marriage in the United States will be a reality very soon because it is just and it is in our DNA as Americans to ultimately turn to what is just.
Now this is selfish on my part. I know I'm going to die someday because I already have. On the 30th of December in 2007 I had a massive coronary and it's a miracle that I am still here and can look back at the last two and a half years and marvel at what has happened in my life. If I had died that day, I wouldn't have been backstage at the Kodak when Senators Clinton and Obama walked in together for the California Democrat Debate. I wouldn't have seen Senator Obama go on to become President. I wouldn't have seen the Inauguration. I wouldn't have seen the Steelers win another Superbowl in 2009 and then the SAINTS, the SAINTS!!!! win in 2010! And I wouldn't have been standing in the Gay and Lesbian Center in Hollywood, California when it was announced that Prop 8 had been overturned by a very conservative judge. Talk about miracles!
Make one more miracle happen Mr. President. Say "I support gay marriage." It's time.
Republicans are funny. They don't mean to be but they just are. It was great to be a Republican until quite recently. Think of it. To have all those years in this century when you could look at yourself in the mirror and say proudly, "I'm as smart as the President. Dare I say, dear God, I am smarter." But now they're back on the heels because a much smarter person is the President. They are not his intellectual equal nor will they be and more importantly to people of the U.S. and the world, they can't explain their cause like he can. They've been talking dumb for so long and with impunity, that being challenged to think is doing them in and it's sad but it's also quite funny. I must stop laughing. They need help and guidance. But like an alcoholic they need to stop themselves first. Underneath their fear and posturing, there are some very smart Republicans who could really help. But they have to help themselves first. Until then we should grin and bear it.
I just don't like the "ED" show on MSNBC. He just seems to be another man with rage issues and I frankly tire of rageholics dominating the discussion of America on Cable News and Talk Radio. If you scream loud enough and have that, "I'm as mad as hell and I not going to take it anymore!!" attitude you're destined to become a star. Sometimes a shooting star that fizzles out and is remembered more for your ultimate nervous breakdown than your wisdom but a star none the less. Think about how hard it was to get your face on Television only 30 years ago. Now its almost easy as public access. Just scream with a touch of sanity and suddenly you got listeners or viewers. But being full of rage does not make you understand the world with any more clarity. It will in a short time cloud your view of the world until your raucous opinion is as unnoticeable as if you screamed as two subway cars pass each other. Screaming back at those who oppose your thinking and your morals just isn't going to get it done. If you will notice I haven't screamed once as I wrote this. I'm trying to stop screaming. I'm much better at not screaming at my family now but inanimate objects are still suffering. I'm working on stopping that because that's just stupid. And I don't want to be any more stupid than I already am. So even though I'm not screaming I will be quiet.
Maybe if I get quiet and think before I speak I might do some good.
