Warning: Reading of this blog may lead to discomfort to some readers. If you have a history of problems with other people’s opinions, please scroll down and read my blog entitled “Lightweights need not apply” before proceeding.
A brilliant and true American patriot and hilarious comedian died today. George Carlin was 71 and still kickin’ when he was struck down in his prime with a fatal heart attack. George was an amazing wordsmith that got us through times of utter political propaganda and word subjugation. Times when such people as the absolute King Of Bullshit, George H. W. Bush were attacking the vernacular of the country with his politically correct “spin words”, George Carlin was there batting clean-up for us all on TV, concerts and records. I once picked up a paper during George the elder’s rein and there was a story that included a list of one hundred common words and phrases in the English language that Bush had personally changed. Things like “peace keepers” instead of soldiers … you get the idea. All designed to keep us in the dark so they could have their way with us under their cloak of bullshit. It worked like a charm, although it could have been much worse without a giant like Carlin keeping their feet to the fire. He had a unique and humorous way of cutting through the lies and showing the underlying corruption of institutions like the Catholic Church while staying funny as hell. He will be greatly missed, but at least we have his recordings, which I continue to play and are as funny and poignant as ever. As they say in the comedians inner circle, Goodbye, funnyman
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Shout Out To Scott
Warning: Reading of this blog may lead to discomfort to some readers. If you have a history of problems with other people’s opinions, please scroll down and read my blog entitled “Lightweights need not apply” before proceeding.
With the unprecedented, unwarranted and frankly unwanted deluge of sympathy blocking out the airways with Tim Russert tributes this week, the mediocre company store reporter with his supposedly tough interview victims being his biggest fans (duh!), an asshole turned great man was virtually overlooked this week. Scott Mclellan ratted on the rest of the rat pack in a book called “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”. A porky piggish man that was part of the genocidal Bush crime team as party spokesman, turned on his fellow man pigs and told of lies and propaganda amongst other failings of the BU(ll)SH(it) crime gang. He along with other such changelings as Richard Clarke and Nixonite, John Dean grew consciences after leaving their posts and I just want to personally thank them and the other men and women that eventually became American’s first and party loyalists second. People like these and others like Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson, must have had good parenting to actually put themselves in such a lonely place away from their former friends and coworkers for the good of the ol’ United States of America. Three cheers!!!
With the unprecedented, unwarranted and frankly unwanted deluge of sympathy blocking out the airways with Tim Russert tributes this week, the mediocre company store reporter with his supposedly tough interview victims being his biggest fans (duh!), an asshole turned great man was virtually overlooked this week. Scott Mclellan ratted on the rest of the rat pack in a book called “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”. A porky piggish man that was part of the genocidal Bush crime team as party spokesman, turned on his fellow man pigs and told of lies and propaganda amongst other failings of the BU(ll)SH(it) crime gang. He along with other such changelings as Richard Clarke and Nixonite, John Dean grew consciences after leaving their posts and I just want to personally thank them and the other men and women that eventually became American’s first and party loyalists second. People like these and others like Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson, must have had good parenting to actually put themselves in such a lonely place away from their former friends and coworkers for the good of the ol’ United States of America. Three cheers!!!
Friday, June 20, 2008
LIghtweights Need Not Apply
I’m dedicating today’s blog to the people that I strongly suggest shouldn’t be reading my blogs. It’s better for them and it’s better for me if they leave now. Not unlike born again christians, there’s no reasoning with some people and I feel it’s better that they go ahead and stay in their little bubbles. My blogs are not the kind that are conversations. They’re not meant to be challenged. I have no interest in arguing politics. In fact, I quit discussing politics with people all together. These rants by me are designed solely to help keep my sanity in the midst of the current political climate. They are my truth not yours. For your utmost comfort, I’ll be including a warning on all my blogs that they’re not meant for everyone and a reference to today’s blog in all my future blogs.
People that should refrain from reading my blogs are:
1. people that think the concept of free speech is an abomination and should be outlawed
2. people that look at George W. Bush and say “boy, that man speaks for me”
3. people who think that their way is the only way and that no one else’s opinions matter
4. people that listen to Fox News or right wing radio exclusively
5. people that find discomfort in other American’s ideas. I say, why bother reading me if it will only lead to agita
6. Neocons (nothing pisses a Neocon off more than when they have their boot on someone’s neck and that someone has the audacity to complain)
7. people that look around and say everything’s hunky dory
8. people that think there’s no difference between the Republicans who hijacked the White House and the former Republican party. Incidentally, I was formerly a fifty percent Democrat and fifty percent Republican. I fully support the Police, our Men and Woman in uniform and want a sovereign nation with secure borders. I also want a strong FDA and a FEMA that can be there when we need them during a disaster, etc…. None of these concepts are concerns of the current white house occupants. Historically, the balance of having the Democrats and Republicans in Washington has been a good thing. But not with this gang of Neocons masquerading as Republicans.
9. people that don’t have a problem with Bush a) borrowing us up to the hilt from Communist Red China to the tune of trillions of dollars b) having our army in another country for no good reason, except maybe for international oil companies to colonize Iraq for their own self interest c) relegating the dollar to the toilet along with America’s reputation around the world … you get the idea
10. racists
To the ones staying around, see you next time.
People that should refrain from reading my blogs are:
1. people that think the concept of free speech is an abomination and should be outlawed
2. people that look at George W. Bush and say “boy, that man speaks for me”
3. people who think that their way is the only way and that no one else’s opinions matter
4. people that listen to Fox News or right wing radio exclusively
5. people that find discomfort in other American’s ideas. I say, why bother reading me if it will only lead to agita
6. Neocons (nothing pisses a Neocon off more than when they have their boot on someone’s neck and that someone has the audacity to complain)
7. people that look around and say everything’s hunky dory
8. people that think there’s no difference between the Republicans who hijacked the White House and the former Republican party. Incidentally, I was formerly a fifty percent Democrat and fifty percent Republican. I fully support the Police, our Men and Woman in uniform and want a sovereign nation with secure borders. I also want a strong FDA and a FEMA that can be there when we need them during a disaster, etc…. None of these concepts are concerns of the current white house occupants. Historically, the balance of having the Democrats and Republicans in Washington has been a good thing. But not with this gang of Neocons masquerading as Republicans.
9. people that don’t have a problem with Bush a) borrowing us up to the hilt from Communist Red China to the tune of trillions of dollars b) having our army in another country for no good reason, except maybe for international oil companies to colonize Iraq for their own self interest c) relegating the dollar to the toilet along with America’s reputation around the world … you get the idea
10. racists
To the ones staying around, see you next time.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Balance is overrated
Tim Russert died today. Seemed like a nice enough guy. Unfortunately his strength turned out to be the country’s weakness. He was so good at preparing for “Meet The Press” that it spawned a cottage industry in Washington of lawyers etc… that would prep crooked politicians and their representatives so well, that the show turned out to be just another propaganda pulpit for the people that hijacked the Republican party and sent our army into another country. (If it weren’t, they wouldn’t have bothered to go on the show. They LOVED it.) The guests would not only be ultra prepared, but Russert would give them all the time in the world to spin their lies, not really taking them to task. I used to say out of frustration while watching this dance go on every Sunday morning that I hope Russert’s having a nice life with the money he’s making on the backs of the men and women that have died due to the selling of the Iraq occupation on his show. Now you might say that this propaganda was just a byproduct of Tim’s well meaning diligence. Well, maybe at first, but after awhile, he had to have known what damage his show was doing to the truth. I think this type of journalism was born out of the O.J. trial when I believe one of the most evil people that ever lived, Johnny Cochran, turned this country around by presenting ”the other side” after each fact in the case was presented to the jury. Almost nothing is provable now that there’s the “truth” and “the other side” to every argument. I hate to say it, but with all due respect, this country is probably better off now that “Meet The Press” has to change moderators. Especially, with the upcoming election. My guess is that the guests that will now appear on the show, will be just a little less prepared knowing he won’t be there. Tim Russert was a Democrat, an American, but first and foremost a Capitalist that lived high off the hog on the misery of some very unfortunate Americans. And that, for better or worse, is how I will remember him.
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