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Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, News.
Barack Obama has screwed himself rotten. This week he has admitted that he isn’t fully versed on his healthcare adventure. Asked, “Is this true? Will people be able to keep their insurance and will insurers be able to write new policies even though H.R. 3200 is passed?” President Obama replied: “You know, I have to say that I am not familiar with the provision you are talking about.” Really? You aren’t familiar with a plan that you are trying to shove down the throats of the American people? Reckless, much?
I suppose last night’s hijacking of the airwaves was supposed to be a means by which Barack Obama could make his case for healthcare and perhaps convince us all that he knows what he’s talking about. There was much babbling, much finger pointing and then Barack Obama was asked about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates. That’s when the president again elected to speak about that which he knows little about. “My understanding is that Professor Gates then shows his I.D. to show that this is his house and, at that point, he gets arrested for disorderly conduct, charges which are later dropped,” Obama said. Really? President Obama, that isn’t how the police say it all went down. They dispute the extent of Gates’ cooperation, saying he didn’t initially provide identification when asked and berated the police.
Not one to be succinct the president then went about his pontificating as he always does, in that kind of exploratory babble that he uses to gauge reaction and to adjust his argument. “I don’t know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, number three, what I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
This is the problem with this country. Everything is racist. Everything is measured against the past. Nothing is an individual case. Gates might have been acting like a fool, but hey, black folks have been treated badly in the past… so let’s give him a pass. Nevermind that President Obama has a personal bias. Even exposing that and admitting it, doesn’t diminish it. So instead of saying, “I don’t know all of the facts,” this guy uses words like “stupidly”. Brilliant.
I want to thank the president. As an opponent of this half baked idea that Democrats have where it concerns healthcare he did us all a HUGE favor. All of his babbling has been boiled down to so much NOTHING as the media focuses in on Mr. Obama’s racial comments. Bravo! This healthcare plan would do more harm than good. So for this president to minimalize his own efforts by clouding them over in a controversial commentary on race is A-OK by me! Again, thank you President Obama, your skewed view of reality, admittedly based in no knowledge of the facts, has done you in… and I am grateful.
Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
As if Michael Jackson’s life wasn’t enough of a spectacle. Now we have this alleged pedophile’s rented womb out there going butch on the media. Why does Rowe have a beef? She’s acting as if she’s some kind of a responsible person due some decency in her treatment. I suppose she’s owed some respect. She’s mourning after all, I mean, the cash cow is dead and now she’s going to have to fight for these brats if she’s ever going to see another payday. Poor, poor Debbie. You sold your kids honey, don’t touch you? What, is it hands off of the merchandise? There will be no accidental touching of the “Rowe” unless you’re ponying up the cash to use her as an incubator? So sickening. Here’s a bit of Debbie Rowe, jawing (literally) at the media.
“ARE YOU READY TO GET YOUR BUTT KICKED!” Wow, how bold. I’m sure this ox of a woman will be a heck of a disciplinarian!
Posted on June 28th, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Entertainment, Just Dumb.
NOOOOOO! Say it ain’t so. Who will cure me of my insomnia? Who will get greasy stains from fast food out of my oxford shirts?! Fate is cruel… or was it simply that God required the services of the world’s number one pitch man? Sadly, I am left to ponder such questions as press sources have confirmed that Billy Mays is dead.
Even as infomercials he hosted aired on local stations across the country this morning, the cable news channels were reporting on the death of pitchman Billy Mays.
50-year-old Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Tampa home this morning. Mays was on board a US Airways flight yesterday that made an emergency landing in Tampa after its front tires blew out. It is unsure whether Mays’ death was related to the incident.
While this might indeed be a natural death and there is little to suggest otherwise, I would still like law enforcement to check out the ShamWow guy. Where was he at the time of May’s death… and can he prove it? Dude seems a little squirrely to me.
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, News, Politics.
NBC and its cable sibling MSNBC are a joke. A sick and perverted joke. These two news outlets are the official networks of the Obama Administration. These two news outlets are nothing more than leftist propaganda peddlers for the left. From Chris Matthews to Keith Olbermann to Ed “Shooter” Schultz the radio blowhard and alleged killer of his own hunting dog, the network is nothing but a 24 hour communications arm for the Democratic Party. If Matthews isn’t talking about the tingle up his leg after hearing Obama speak, Olbermann is mumbling insults over Conservative guests. It’s morning noon and night, Obamavision. Now NBC’s Brian Williams is added to the list of fawning Obamaniacs at NBC. What else would one call the Nightly News infomercial “Inside the Obama Whitehouse” that has been aired over the past two days? It is obvious that Williams reveres Obama, so much so that he actually does bow as he ends the interview. I know, some of you are going to say that wasn’t a bow… but what it was, was subservience. It appeared to me that Williams was addressing some kind of a monarch. I guess when Obama turned and left, Williams was able to turn and exit without having to walk backwards as not to show his back to the messiah?
Shameful but moreso than that, unbefitting of a legitimate news outlet. I guess GE knows where its bread is buttered and as a division, NBC needs to fall in line too… why else be the “liberal” network?
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Political Correctness.
Here is a funny and dare I say accurate take on political correctness that was attached to an email I received.
Political Correctness - “A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end”
Bloody brilliant!
Posted on May 31st, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, Just Dumb, News.
One would think that Robert Gibbs, the President’s Press Secretary would be a little more media savvy. Where former Press Secretaries would dismiss comments made by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, or in this case the British press, Gibbs seems keen to take on all comers straight away. Bad move, Bob (or does the President call you Bill too?).
Politico has an extraordinary report on Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, launching a furious broadside against the British press. Here are Gibbs’ sneering and condescending remarks:
“I want to speak generally about some reports I’ve witnessed over the past few years in the British media,” Gibbs said. “In some ways, I’m surprised it filtered down.”
“Let’s just say if I wanted to look up, if I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League Cup, I’d might open up a British newspaper,” he continued. “If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”
Gibbs’ juvenile comments followed an article in The Daily Telegraph relating to the President’s decision not to release new photos reportedly showing appalling prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib by a tiny minority of military personnel. The straightforward news piece, hotly disputed by the White House, is based upon an interview with Major General Antonio Taguba, who oversaw the inquiry into the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal.
Bob, may I call you Bob? Your boss wants this story to go away. The US military wants this story to go away. The American people want this story to go away. So, when you’re asked about it, why not just say, “The President did what he felt was in the best interests of our fighting men and women still in harm’s way,” or, “We’re not going to comment on every press account as relates to an issue that has been thoroughly covered.”? It’s all really rather simple, Bob. You don’t need to diminish the whole of British media with a snarky retort. Please Bob, a little professionalism. You should be out there elevating your neophyte boss in the eyes of the world and here you are playing down at his level? Come on, man… think.
Leave Limbaugh and the media (British or otherwise) alone. Think of these items as the third rail of Press Secretaries. You have managed to elevate a talk show host to the level of world power, while lowering the British press to the level of The National Enquirer. Just nod, smirk and say nothing… you can handle that kind of work cantcha Bob?
You’re an idiot Mr. Gibbs, but you’re our idiot. I don’t like to see you savaged in the foreign press, even if deserving of it. Elevate your rhetoric sir, please, for the sake of your rock star boss.
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 March 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Writing.
So here I sit, at my desk. The blinds are drawn shut, behind me incense (Citrus Teakwood, which cultivates in me neither a sense of citrus or teakwood), burns on the mantle in the soap stone burner that Sam gave me for Valentine’s Day. To my right the halogen of my desk lamp shines a warm cone downward onto the keyboard and desktop. It’s light illuminates the ghostly strands of steam that rise up and out of my coffee cup. I have devoured my daily regime of vitamins, even going so far as to double up on the Ginkgo and the Ginseng. Surely the mood will strike me. Surely my eyes will glaze over in a haze of imagined happenings and I will write. I keep my ears tuned to hear the voices but none come. The silence is *insert cliche here* deafening. I put on the Pastor of Panic for a brief instant, but the inane ramblings of Glenn Beck do nothing to stoke the inner writer. Is there one amongst us who is not keenly aware by now that the Messiah is in all actuality, more mediocre?
This weekend was a mixed bag. It was back to the rental house which has been a drain on my sanity. What was avoided is now mission. The work must be done, the deeds completed. It is a mindset that spans the spectrum. I grabbed up the writing with the same vigor as I will all things. I powered through a scene that had me slowed to a crawl. I pressed on in spite of myself, a wonderful, courageous, feat if you’re me. No second guessing (other than about chapter length) and no introspective clap trap… I suppose I shall leave that to this bit of cyber obscurity.
I have bouyed my position in the positive, with all things. Where it concerns the writing, I have turned to comments I have received. Thus far with the exception of one, they have all been good. Constructive criticism was offered where people thought it needed. Not granting a name to the pro/an-tagonist of the the story until the final paragraph of the first chapter seems a common gripe. Usually that gripe carries a caveat, that the character is compelling in spite of it and that he is written with strength. That seems to me to indicate that I have done something right, and if it works regardless why change it? It was an editor that first brought this to my attention, I hadn’t noticed it. He said, “I’m invested in this guy within the first page and I don’t even know his name.” It’s the first draft, this is when you experiment. Could I rearrange the chapters, make the story more linear? Absolutely. For now though I’m doing it the way that works for me, the way in which I would like to read it. For now (in this first draft stage) it’s my story and I’m going to do it my way. I know, typical greedy bastard… I can accept that. And if in the end it doesn’t work, the chapters are easily interchangeable.
Another friend offered, “I was compelled to read it, I was drawn to it.” I took that as complementary, but then the demon spoke, “Car accidents are compelling, people are drawn to those too.” I am quite pleased to say that I stomped the ever living crap out of that demon, and the quote from my friend remains ever accessible in my saved email folder. One more weapon, one more inspiration, one more reason to try.
So, I sit here. The coffee cools, the spirit of the incense drifts high above my head, the vitamins turn my stomach sour, and the Pastor of Panic has taken a long commercial break. My long lament, like the remnants of my inane rituals serves as gentle reminder. “Hey Stupid, it’s time to get to work.”
Today’s goal? Fleshing out Victor Avila… no pun intended.
Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb.
NO WAY! This is a sick joke, right?!
I guess this is news to the one moron out there that still believed this cat was straight.
