Rick Warren. The man is just a studied case of applied stupidity, and the celebration of that whole concept. It finds favor with a male oriented population which seems to take its roots from the 'Cowboy mentality' of the late eighteen hundred's. The Gran Torino (AKA: Dirty Harry gets old) is a perfect example of this mentality. And Obama and the Dream Team are throwing a bone to this grousing rat pack of carrion feeding mongrels. Rick Warren wants homosexuals dead or reduced to sexual predator status. Now, how in God's name, can we have a guy like that say the invocation for our incoming savior? This man is part and parcel of the same pack of assholes who have taken our country to the brink of total devastation, caused us to lose all respect around the world, entered us into evil rendition arrangements with the slimiest of torturing characters, and so on. Why stop there? Jesus Christ, this man is emblematic of the kind of person who, in the Old Testament, the Lord would have smitten with a sweeping vengeance. But here he is, right up there in a place of honor. That just sucks, and I don't care if Obama thinks that will help unite this country. Get it here, and right now Barack, we do not want to be united with this shit or any of his followers. We overwhelmingly picked you because we wanted no more of these self-righteous and self-enriching creeps around us. Now get to work! Or become what you sought to rail against yourself. Or at least we thought you did.
MTV is throwing 15 new 'unscripted' reality shows up against the wall this coming season. It appears that their viewership is down almost twenty-five percent. Dah! You are putting crap out there for the audience to view. We, as television viewers, lack the ability to throw vegetables at you, so we just switch off. We do not want any more of that dunce-cap reality stupidity, no matter how much you keep hyping that it is more 'real' than anything that has come before. We have reality right here, where we are living, and we don't want any more of that. We don't care about Donald Trump, or chefs fighting in kitchens over more stupidity, or people chasing about on obviously (and badly) scripted races. Get over it or die. Television, as with the newspapers, is going right down the toilet unless it gets over the producer's nepotistic self-love and self congratulation. You have to make the effort to give the audience good stuff. If you don't then we sit out here and drink, or go back to reading, or play Scrabble, or something. Rick Warren is emblematic of this, as well. Applied stupidity. It is, at times satisfying, but it is the way of the loser. In school and out here. At work and at home.
I am working on my Christmas cards. I create them from card stock I order from Italy, then build them with foil from Germany and stamps from the good old USA. I use a black ink fountain pen to address the cards and then the same pen to write inside. The actual stamps are from the fifties (I collect stamps too). The great old six and eight cent Christmas stamps that were put out back then. I have fifty cards to finish. That is about as many as I have ever made. I have been as low as thirty-three. Now, I lose people for entirely different reasons than in years past. Back then I lost people because they moved and I never heard from them again, or they simply turned out to be bad apples. Now I lose them because they die! And that is disconcerting, indeed. I miss them. The ones that die. I still keep them in my book, but there they are to remind me that they are no longer here. Shit. Why do I spend all this time to do such a strange thing, in a world where people do not even bother, for the most part, to even go out and buy cards and send them off? Because it is important to me. I am not sure why. Maybe because I am a writer and I think that the written word is special. And the personal written letter or card, the most special of all. Reality cards, if you will, but well scripted ones.
Governor Rod spoke! He came out and, backed by the fiber transmitted to him through the absorption of my blogs, stood firm. Meanwhile, the pundits complain away about the fact that nobody supports this governor. Another crock! The governor does not need any of the support they seem to think he ought to have. This guy is at the helm of the Illinois ship and there is nothing anybody can do about it. Now, idiots, pray that the captain does not aim the ship to run up upon the rocks, because he can certainly do that, and in so many ways. I detailed a bunch of them. There are more. I don't like the guy, or his wife. But I sure understand his situation, and the role he was elected to perform. If I were Fitzgerald, the Federal Prosecutor (who seems to have gotten the idea that he is Javert, from the Victor Hugo novel; Les Miserable), I would tuck my tail in and shut my mouth. If Governor Rod chooses to focus on him, that Fed will find out, for the first time in his life, what public and private pain are all about. You stand, Governor Rod, just as you are, as a beacon against outrageous public prosecution.
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John McCain is going to select Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) CT as his Vice-Presidential running mate. There are two reason for this selection. It display's McCain's bi-partisanship muscle. The second reason requires some set up. First, John McCain's been dropping Judeo-Christian like it's hot lately. He's planning to paint Sen. Obama as a Muslim v. the Christian and the Jew. Secondly, Mike Huckabee is dispatched to Israel to rally the troops. That is the master plan and it must be defeated now.
Since when is a 4.6% margin over dead even a "decisive" win? You line up 1000 people against a wall, cut the group 500/500, then get 46 in group A to move to group B. Then get them all to huddle up in a group. You could barely tell the two groups apart.
Jeepers, these statisticians now-a-days. 54.6% - 45.4% = 9.2% / 2 = 4.6% Is this not rudimentary math?
Come on MSM, you can do better than this! So 20% of the white voters in PA wouldn't vote for Barack Obama even if he was the messiah, because he's of mixed-race origin. Personally, I don't call him "black", and I don't call him "white" -- I just call him "naturally tan", just like my grandson. However, Mekhi Jevon and I want Barack to become the next President not because he's got an outstanding skin tone, but because he's the best-qualified candidate for the job! IT has absolutely nothing to do with his race!
Michael Jackson got it right -- "I'm not going to spend my life being a color" (and he didn't!) -- and so did the folks after SC. "Race doesn't matter", "Race doesn't matter" -- we can still hear their chants in our minds if we listen closely enough.
Among the three left standing, Bruce Springsteen hit the nail on the head when he said he's "head and shoulders" above the other two for reasons too numerous to mention in this blog, but certainly research of accomplishments over the last 20-35 years show Barack Obama has actually accomplished more than his opponent.
But even if he were not better qualified, had I not become more than a little biased, I can still add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Why can't our MSM do the same? Many are reporting this 9.2% win as a "decisive" win. Why? It's hogwash and any third grader could tell you it's true.
60% to 40%, now that is a decisive win. 75% to 25%, that's a landslide. I think I'm going to promote these as the new standard for use of the adjectives decisive and landslide. I'll call it, "Pandy's handy-dandy reference of adjectives to be used when describing the outcome of a political contests".
A 10-point delegate edge amounted to a 6.3% victory. A 54.6% to 45.4% popular vote win yielded a 9.2% spread.
Come on MSM, you can do better than this!
(See this MTV article for an example of an over-reaching statement magnitude of Hillary's win).
This conversation airs tonight at 6pm ET/PT on MTV and will be streamed at chooseorlose.com starting at 7pm ET.
This hour long event that was taped in Scranton, PA will be broadcast on all MTV stations (MTV, mtvU, MTV2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, and streamed across 1,800 sites of the Associated Press online video network.
Also check out think.mtv.com/BarackObama, one of our newest official social networking sites within the MTV community.
(MTV photo of Sen. Barack Obama and Marine Veteran Chris Weimer)
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
As "Super Tuesday" on February 5 approaches, MTV and MySpace.com have announced the final installment of their ongoing "presidential dialogue" series. Co-presented by the Associated Press, the event will [took] place at 6 p.m. EST on Saturday, February 2.
The Viacom-owned MTV and the News Corp.-owned MySpace aim[ed] to make this the "most publicly accessible and interactive presidential candidate event in history," according to a release from the two companies. The event [was] broadcast live on MTV, MTV2, and the Latino-geared MTV Tres, as well as shown in part on the college network MTVU, streamed live on MTV Mobile, MySpace's election site, MTV's Choose or Lose politics site, and the Associated Press Online Video Network. It [was] translated into Spanish for La Vibra, and broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, AP Radio, and MTV Radio. In addition, the event [was] broadcast on MTV's giant high-definition TV screen in New York's Times Square.
As with past installments of the presidential dialogue series, questions for the candidates [were] gathered not only from the live audience (this time it will be in MTV's Times Square studio), the Choose or Lose Web site, and MySpace's MySpaceIM instant messaging client. Real-time polling [was] conducted through Flektor, the social-media start-up that MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media purchased last year.
Both MTV and MySpace have been particularly visible in youth voting initiatives for the 2008 campaign season. MTV has launched a citizen journalism campaign, and MySpace has been polling young voters as a way to gather data and spread awareness.
See the videos from this event: http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1580846&vid=207153 or http://www.mtv.com/
Source: CNET Networks, Inc.
Between the mobs of tourists and New Yorkers who normally populate the theater district and the youthful horde that stands outside MTV Studios to cheer celebrities during shows like "TRL," Times Square is used to seeing crowds.
But the cheering throng of supporters of Barack Obama tonight was still breath-taking.
They had less than 24 hours notice. They were told it would be cold. They were told that they'd be sharing space with other campaigns. They were told that Barack wouldn't be there in person, and would only be participating in MTV's "Choose or Lose" Presidential Forum via satellite. And they were told that we'd need them in the early evening, smack in the middle of a Saturday night in one of the best nightlife cities in the world.
But they were fired up and ready to go!
The chants of "Si Se Puede! Yes We Can!" could be heard across the street. The NYPD provided one bike-rack designated area for Obama supporters... and one for the supporters of other campaigns. And they gave us the larger one.
One thing is abundantly clear as we head towards Primary Day on February 5th: New Yorkers are ready for change and filled with hope.
Just talked with Rudi Shenk our New York state organizer who reported over 300 Barack Obama supporters cheering Barack on during the MySpace and MTV "Presidential Dialogue" in Times Square. Rudi said that police had to increase the amount of space for the Obama supporters because of the amount of people that showed up to be a part of our movement. He said, "The enthusiasm was amazing! Young voters from New York and New Jersey came out to be a part of the magic."
Here is a quick video recap from our MySpace page:
You can also join Barack's MySpace Page at myspace.com/BarackObama.
Check out this a photo from a rally of Obama supporters outside The MTV Studios in Times Square taken a few minutes ago:
Share your thoughts on this MySpace MTV Dialogue below.
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1572871&vid=184799
