… there will be another season of Jersey Shore… but the U.S. government… that’s up in the air.”
Oh honey, from your lips to God’s ears!
I’m SO SICK of the blah blah blah about government shut down, hearing how seniors will starve, how it’s all the Republicans’ fault, etc etc etc.
Watching the news is rather frustrating right now. Not that I do it very often. But it’s so depressing. And life is too busy to dwell on all the massive negativity they are dumping on us. I just wish these clowns would quit their selfish bickering and retire, ykwim???
Yesterday I realized that it’s always “something.” The media always gives every adult generation something to really worry about. Bay of Pigs, nuclear war, Breshnev, Ghadafi, whatever. There’s never any peace from them, did ya notice?
WELL ANYWAY I say we hold a little revolt of our own. What if they held a war and nobody came, huh? What if we all decided just to stop worrying and BE HAPPY and CONTENTED? Me, I just want to run my business in peace, I want to order my office supply stuff and make my customers happy without every government official poking and prodding and interfering and scaring me into thinking it’s all gonna come down on my head.
I say BOO.
:grinny: Go ahead and shut down, then. Don’t let the screen door hit ya on the way out, sonny!
Well, this was a surprise coming from *another* celebrity. CNS News has a story about Garth Brooks talking about the Oval Office and how difficult the job must be for good ol’ PBO.
Wait wait wait!! Wait a second. “The system” did he say? Don’t you mean the U.S. Constitution, Mr. Brooks? Like, the entire LAW of the LAND?!
“Yeah, I think what President Obama is finding out is all that we want to do, the system kind of doesn’t allow the most powerful guy in the world to kind of do his job and I’m sure nobody’s more frustrated than him to complete those promises that he did and I think he’s trying his heart out. I love him to death and I fully support him and I just wish him well because it’s got to be hell in that office.”
No, it isn’t “all” that “we” want to do. I am kinda partial to the Constitution. We aren’t going to throw out the very founding documents that made this country great AND protect our freedoms just because you “love Obama” and Obama needs to “do his job.” It’s the Constitution that MAKES Obama president, hello!!! Some folks have heads too big to fit their ten gallon hats, I tell ya.
Folks, I’m sorry. I’ve been trying to be funny and not as crabby, but yow. Stories like this make me scairt. I need to go bury myself into seo moz again to lower my blood pressure…
Know what I hate? Yeah, besides slobbery dogs, lazy public employees, stupid lawsuits, etc etc etc… besides all those, I hate pop culture. IT SUCKS.
Tonight, the Internet and TV are ablaze with the Grammys. All I can say is BIG WHOOP. What a bunch of malarky! What a waste of life! Why is our society a bunch of drooling celebrity idolators?? We are the greatest country in the WORLD! We should be filling the halls of science and seminaries with the best of the best– Why don’t we exalt REAL successful, honorable vocations, like ddc scientists making incredible progress in health?! Or authors stunning the world with their uplifting literature? Why do we have to tolerate junk like this:
OK, you CAN'T fool me. That's NO "lady."
That’s “Lady” GaGa. There’s something very wrong with a society that exalts sleaziness and despises wholesomeness like… like… well, like Justin Bieber! Why is it OK to adore “Lady” Gag-Gag but it’s OK to treat sweet little Justin with contempt? Something is very wrong here. Look at his cute face!!
Why do people hate him so much? He’s so wholesome, such a good example of goodness.
Bah. It’s an unfair world we live in. A world that exalts people like Paris Hilton.. and for what? Because she’s so beautiful or talented or has accomplished something great! No, because she make a porno vid. All very sad.
Now I am not going to pick on Rachel Maddow here (as much as she deserves it). Everybody falls for a hoax at some point in their lives, whether it is a cockamamie story about Sarah Palin invading Egypt or some weird theory that humans evolved from primordial ooze. But this gaffe is a bit more amusing because Maddow is touted as a serious journalist at MSNBC. I suppose that’s left to conjecture, but here’s the funny story, in case you missed it.
By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire – 37 mins ago WASHINGTON, DC – The Internet’s finest satirists snookered a big fish in the media world last night. In an embarrassing segment on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow slammed conservatives for attacking President Obama’s Egypt policies. Her targets included Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Stephenson Billings at ChristWire.org. Only problem is Stephenson Billings is not a real person. He’s a fictional byproduct of website that also warns readers that the Xbox Kinect is a terrorist training tool and the Japanese have created scary robot babies which “threaten humanity.” Full story here.
*snicker*
Here’s the video of her show. I found it very amusing!
She was criticized for not bothering to look up the facts before blasting this supposed story. That’s what kind of irks me– these journalists harshly criticize others (especially bloggers) for lack of fact-checking. Um, hello?? And then, when she is called out for it, she ungracefully blames Glenn Beck for it all. OH BROTHER.
But the whole “believe a hoax” thing is funny. When I first saw a video by The Onion, I thought the story was true (it was about a new release of an Apple product, and all the Apple zombies were lining the streets to buy it). I actually found the video. Here it is for your viewing pleasure.
So if you fall for a hoax, don’t sweat it. But if you fall for a hoax and falsely accuse people without fact-checking the information, that’s pretty nasty. And if you are called out for it and blame someone else for your gaffe, that’s really bad.
Have you noticed how the blame hounds took mere seconds to JUMP on the “Arizona Shooter” story?? Both sides of the table, too– liberals and conservatives! Sheesh, in the past, the hounds usually waited a few days to allow folks to mourn before using a tragedy to shove another agenda down people’s throats. Now, like Halloween in July, the hounds can’t start the show soon enough!
I’m tired of it. These guys are disgusting. I’m going to close my eyes and ears from it all.
You know, I have pergo floors to install, bills to pay, neighbor kids to scream at. I don’t need to have another goofy political agenda shoved down my throat because some lobbyists seeks opportunity. And DON’T YOU DARE TAKE AWAY MY SECOND AMENDMENT. Just sayin’.
In other news, we got lots o’ snow in the Northeast, did you know? It’s been a pretty good (average) season for snow. But then again, maybe liberals will outlaw snow because someone died of hypothermia… or maybe conservatives will outlaw meteorology because the weatherman was dead wrong when he said we’d only get an inch. And by the way– HA HA was he joking? Yesterday, we got 18 inches. It just wouldn’t stop. Even yesterday afternoon, when we already had 6 inches on the ground, the weather prophets were saying the storm would “taper off” any moment, and total accumulation would be 1-3 inches.
You know, it’s times like this that I really think we SHOULD just flip a coin.
So… how are you? Ready to take a break from the news yet? What are you doing this weekend?
It is SO gratifying to know that a handful of people out there STILL know what the Constitution says, and are willing to defend it!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson of Virginia ruled that forcing American citizens to obtain health insurance (the lynchpin of Obamacare– by the way, the spelling error is intended) is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!! There is NO WAY the “interstate commerce clause” can be reasonably twisted to mean that Americans must buy or have federal health insurance (or a car or an ipod nano review or cans of spinach anything else, for that matter). I am totally, totally thrilled with this ruling. FINALLY. Some good news. Oh God, thank you.
Funny thing is… remember a year ago, when Nancy Pelosi scathing rebuked a reporter when she was questioned about the Constitutionality of the health care law? Oh it’s classic, my friends. This is what I had ranted last year:
In case you haven’t heard, those idiots in Congress are considering legislation that would FORCE us to get health insurance, or else the IRS stormtroopers will come knocking at our doors.
This is absolutely ILLEGAL to mandate. All laws in this country are supposed to abide by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Of course, this hasn’t stopped those Washington idiots since the days of FDR… but Pelosi was confronted about the issue, and her response is CLASSIC.
When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows:
CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”
Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”
Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.”
“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”
I’d love to know what Pelosi meant by “Are you serious?” when asked about the Constitution. Interpreted, was she really saying, “Oh that old rag! Do we still use that thing??”
Um, Mrs. Pelosi? Memo to Mrs. PELOSI: HELL YEAH, WE ARE SERIOUS.
