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Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
Well, give the little weasel and his team some credit… Phil Spector managed to widdle quite a few years of freedom out of the system even after killing a woman in cold blood.
Today the weird one was finally sentenced and sent away. Nineteen years is basically a death sentence for a man of 69, and frankly that’s what he deserves. I’m sure the fellas in prison are going to love the assortment of wigs.
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
Senator Cornyn, do us all a favor and practice what you preach. How dare you judge editorial worth by whether or not somebody is an “elected official”.
“I think it’s terrible… This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent.”
Cornyn dismissed Limbaugh and Gingrich, adding: “Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials. I just don’t think it’s appropriate. I certainly don’t endorse it. I think it’s wrong.”
Have you read the Constitution of the United States of America, Senator? It is every American’s RIGHT to speak their mind and I would go further and state that it is their civic duty. I suppose you being a Senator makes you a more worthy judge of Sonia Sotomayor? It seems you’ve taken as elitist a view as the judge, elevating your position as a Senator above that of the unelected. Perhaps you two could compare and contrast your assertion that elected opinions matter more than those of the unelected, with her view that latina women are better judges than white males.
Excuse me sir, but Gingrich and Limbaugh owe you nothing. They surely don’t owe you their silence. Perhaps if you weren’t such a yellow bellied coward they wouldn’t have to take it upon themselves to speak out. Perhaps if you were as committed to the defense of conservatism as you claim to be, you would understand why the words of Sotomayor are so concerning. Perhaps if you were a man of convictions rather than a hack consumed with being re-elected, you’d be out in front leading on the issue instead of calculating risks to your own political ambitions.
Right is right, sir. Cowardly is cowardly… and you sir, you Senator Cornyn, you are a coward.
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News.
I had to laugh when I read this story. It seems that Ahmadinejad is trying to buy the votes of the poor in Iran by doling out potatoes.
Two weeks from today, Iran’s presidential election will determine whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Holocaust-denying, Israel-hating, America-bashing incumbent, remains in office, whether his country continues its drive to become a nuclear power, and whether a state with a key role in Iraq, Afghanistan and other international flashpoints remains hostile to the West.
The stakes could scarcely be higher, but it is the lowly potato that has been grabbing attention.
The Government is handing out 400,000 tonnes of free spuds in rural towns. It says that it is merely distributing the surplus from a bumper crop, but Mr Ahmadinejad’s opponents accuse it of bribing the poor. “Death to potatoes,” they chant at rallies.
One would think that the idea is madness and that the people could see through such things (especially given that Iran has a very high unemployment rate that Mahmoud has done nothing about) but perhaps not. After all, look at us here in the United States. We bought off on a juvenile and populist notion that Barack Obama would deliver “hope” and “change”. Given that the US seems to be doing worse off now than when he took office, it seems that Ahmadinejad’s potatoes are a much stronger offering than Obama’s cheap promises.
I hope that in the future those voting Democrat will demand more of their candidates. It’s time for them to get back to basics… passing out cigarettes, instead of handing off bogus promises.
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment.
I’ve never been a fan of Jay Leno. Let’s just get that out in the open. I think the record shows quite accurately that Jay got the “Tonight Show” gig by screwing over a good friend (David Letterman). I don’t have much respect for people that go to such lengths. Leno likes to blame it all on his deceased manager Helen Kushnick but the fact is, Jay had to know what she was up to and the game she was playing in his name. What did Helen get for her efforts? She got fired and thrown under the bus. Jay made it like every lousy thing ever done in his name was something Helen did unilaterally. Uh huh.
Jay isn’t the most original guy in the world either, Howard Stern has maintained that Leno stole the “Jaywalking” segment from him. Let’s just say, I think Stern has a legitimate beef. Leno even went so far as to hire Stuttering John Melendez from Stern’s show, once again going through the back door rather than being upfront and discussing it with Stern.
Now we have NBC going through this whole charade of saying goodbye to Jay… but the guy isn’t really going anywhere. In another shrewd move Leno has managed to wrestle an hour of primetime each night from the network. How did he do it? He did it by acting like he was interested in offers from other networks, namely ABC. Jay Leno is not a nice guy. I seriously hope that his prime time show goes down in flames and that he trashes his already flimsy legacy by making this move. Instead of being classy and handing over the reins in the manner of Carson, Jay has just gone and made it all about him again.
I never watched Jay at 11:30PM and I sure as heck can guarantee I won’t be watching him at 10:00PM either. What NBC has done, is to basically insured that I won’t be watching an hour of their primetime lineup for the forseeable future. I will however, give Conan a chance as the new host of the “Tonight Show”. Conan is a funny and genuinely likeable guy… and I wish him much luck in his new gig. I’m sure he’s just as baffled by Leno’s latest antics, he just can’t say anything about it… yet. Sorry folks, I’m just not buying that Jay is just this kindly funny man. If anything, I think that’s the image he likes to cultivate while stomping on people and getting what he wants.