Your pardon please

I have been remiss in tending to this blog. What began as a semi-egotistical bit of whimsy has unfortunately become too often, a showcase for personal histrionics.
A very dear friend, & sometime follower of this blog told me that I seem so angry in my postings.
The original intent of this blog was to show the absurdities in the world around us & to comment upon the same, hopefully with a bit of humor. There is certainly a profusion the ludicrous around us today. The last thing that is needed in these cheerless & inflamed times is a third rate hack as myself to add "fuel to the fire."
Yes, there are enough events in the world, especially in the political arena to make anyone become another Charles Whitman. The time has come for me to dial it down.
Occasionally, I will rant on about some jackhole who in my opinion has crossed the line of civility. However, I plan in the future to limit these outbursts to a minimum & return to be the sarcastically humorous SOB that has become my trademark & hopefully endeared me to my family & friends. I will periodically toss in a joke, no matter how much in poor taste it may seem,& completely unrelated just to make someone smile. Thank you for your indulgence.

Outsourced

NBC has a new "comedy"called Outsourced scheduled this fall 2010. From previews,it looks like they are using every East Indian stereotype they can to garner laughs.
I don't give a rat's behind about stereotypes, if I did, I'd be pissed about how fathers have been portrayed since the advent of sitcoms. Fathers(husbands)are easily manipulated by the family, condescended to by the "smarter" wife. Dumb as a bag of bricks etc.
But, I digress.
How does NBC think offshore outsourcing is a good premise for a comedy? According to the Halogen Corporation, "Outsourcing statistics show that the largest percentage of jobs being outsourced is in Information Technology, by around 28%. The next largest field is human resources taking 15% of the outsourcing market, followed closely by sales and marketing outsourcing with 14% and financial services outsourcing at 11%. The remaining 32% is made up of other different processes such as administrative outsourcing." These stats are just for India.
In this day of a trashed economy & thousands upon thousands losing their livelihood due to outsourcing, I don't get NBC's concept of comedy. Current guestimates are that the U.S. has lost between 4- 6 million jobs directly due to offshore outsourcing, with another 14 million at risk.
The best that can be said about this "comedy" is it is offensive on multiple levels.
NBC has had the lowest ratings they've for years (Zucker you suck). Their ratings are right in the toilet. What else is in a toilet...crap...like the "comedy" Outsourced.

This, that and the other revisited

This:
The Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham was quoted on CNN's John King "I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim, his father was a Muslim. The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name." Well, anyone with a brain knows that this patently untrue & another right wing loony idea that ranks right up there with the birthers conspiracy. For whatever reason (political, racial) Graham has chosen to perpetuate this bullshit. As a supposed man of God, Graham has sealed his fate in the afterlife. I'm sure that whatever God Rev. Graham believes in has consigned him to own personal hell for those remarks.
Timothy 6:11 says "But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness." For those who believe, there is no "my God is better than your God". Perhaps the blasphemous Rev. Graham needs to look inward & reevaluate his own beliefs.

That:
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) has come out pissing & moaning that movies featuring cigarette smoking should automatically receive a "R" rating. Two jackhole
members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Democrat Edward Markey and Republican Joseph Pitts, wrote the Motion Picture Association of America encouraging the industry to adopt stronger anti-smoking measures.
Listen up dimwits. Smoking is a personal choice. No one is influenced by the actions of a movie actor's smoking habit. As a adult lifetime smoker who expects to die due to smoking, allow me my vices & choice. Smoke 'em if you got 'em & fuck off.

The Other:
Fox News donated $1,000,000 to the Republican party. Something isn't quite right with this picture. Shouldn't it be the other way around? The Republican party should donate $1,000,000 to Fox News, considering that Fox sells the Republican credo
24/7. Well, there goes the last vestige Fox had of "fair & balanced"
I left my version of Fox's "fair & balanced" when I had my morning sitdown in the bathroom. Believe me, neither one has a pleasant aroma to it.

This, That & The Other Part 3

Monday 5/12/2010 on Hardball with Chris Matthews, one of the guests was Tom Shrek of "The Heritage Foundation". He is senior analyst of labor economics. The following is lifted directly from the 5/12/2010 transcript regarding Mr. Shrek's solution to unemployment.
"And so, if you want to find a job, a lot of the workers now in New York or unemployed are going to have to move to different state. They‘re going to have to move to, say, Nebraska, or to Texas, or one of the states where the economy isn‘t doing as poorly.
But when you got the two years of benefits, it encourages the workers to look for the jobs in New York instead of looking for the jobs, say, in another state."
Using this logic. if the was a sudden influx of the unemployed to Nebraska or Texas, think what will happen to their economy when these states have to start picking up the tab for social services to provide food, clothing, shelter etc. Not just for the unemployed, but for their families as well. Or does Mr. Shrek want families to live & die on the streets of economically sound states?
Background: The Heritage Foundation is a Washington DC conservative think tank.
Is it me,or is conservative think tank one of the great oxymorons of our time?

The Iowa North Tea Party began displaying a billboard in Mason City last week that compares President Obama to Adolf Hitler.
Lets get real. Between 1933-1939 Hitler began to purge (i.e.remove, eliminate, kill those opposed to the Reich. Example: 1934's "Night of the Long Knives") Hitler, consigned, along with the Jews & Gypsies, those considered mentally unstable to concentration camps.
If President Obama was truly comparable to Hitler, Tea Baggers should watch their behinds. The camps are open & waiting for you. If anyone can be considered mentally unstable, it's these morons in the NITP.
Sidebar: The NAACP raised a ruckus regarding the racist message of said billboard.
Really. The more than obvious message from the majority of Tea Party members is based on race. Lordy, lordy Miss Scarlett, "There's a Negro President." From the woodpile to the White House.Whitey is scared to death.

George Steinbrenner died this week. the usual eulogies regarding his generosity to charities, his humanitarian deeds etc. were mentioned predominantly. I don't give a shit. In my learned opinion the jackhole did more to destroy the game of baseball than anyone in history. He exploited the players, the fans & the game itself.
The purity that was once baseball was forever changed thanks to Steibrenner & his ilk.
The days of baseball being a game are long gone.

Because of the following:
"Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives."

The preceding is a fine example of the abuse we must suffer in this wonderful country for allowing Freedom of Speech
With all the calculated buffoonery of Limbaugh, Savage, Beck et.al, Ms. Palin has added another quality to the mix. Outright stupidity.
Please define "Americans"
If you disagree with MS. Palin, are you not considererd American?
Are there really any safe driiling areas? Let's ask BP.

You are a megalomaniacal, venal, cretinous, harpy, who would make Joe McCarthy proud, & is scaring the bejesus out of me.
I am asking you Sarah Palin. Will you Shut Up.

The current rumor flying out of Hollywood is the cancellation of NBC's "Law & Order" after 20 yrs. Ouch. While no longer the fan that I was of the series, (with all due respect to the current lineup of personnel), the last two years of"Law & Order" seem to be beyond the long -in-the-tooth category & moving into the Polident generation. Perhaps it's a burn out caused by the never ending marathons on TNT.
The crux of this rant is about the short sightedness (if rumor becomes fact), of another TV network having cranial-rectal inversion.
Currently tied with "Gunsmoke" as the longest running prime time drama in all of TV history. This series has done an incredible job of being entertaining & informative, not to mention offering some of the best acting performances by both regular cast & guest stars.
If NBC has a brain, (doubtful) the network should order 13 weeks of new episodes for 2011-2012. What looks better on your resume? Hosting a drama series tied for the longest prime time run, or hosting the drama series with the LONGEST PRIME TIME RUN in all of television's history.
Who's your head of programming? Jay Leno?
NBC at one time considered to be the network to beat, has recently fallen from grace. No longer innovative or creative (Today, Tonight, Hill Street Blues, Cheers, Meet The Press, SNL etc.), it has become at best, a vapid shadow of its former self.
"Law & Order" has generated millions of $ for the peacock network over the last 20 yrs. It has become legendary.
With the cost of television series production soaring, it has become cheaper to market "reality shows", sub-standard entertainment & rehashed ideas. I suppose this is to be expected in today's world. The last thing one has come to expect from any corporation is loyalty.

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."

Van Buren & McCoy etc.
You Will be missed.

Fox News is being called a lot of things: Fox Noise, Fux News etc.
Well there is definitely one thing you can't call them, & that's News.
In their latest "fair & balanced", "we report, you decide" sham, Fox gave air time to the failed former Director of FEMA, Mike Brown. You remember him? He worked under the failed former President W.
This loony piece of excrement went on an unfounded (other then the fact that "righties" really hate Obama) rant blaming the current administration for the current oil spill in the Gulf. The secret agenda of President Obama & his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel was to politicize the disaster & use it to "bankrupt the coal industry"(direct quote). Loony went on to accuse Obama of everything except donning scuba gear & blowing up the oil rig himself.
Calling this a rant is being charitable. This mother was almost foaming at the mouth while he spewed his hatred for Obama.
Side bar: Chris Matthews of MSNBC later that day had loony Brown on to repeat these allegations. One of Matthews self promoting commercials states, that he, Chris Matthews gets to the truth & won't let guests get away with any crap, coz "he will call them out" Watching that interview was a lesson in how not to do your journalistic job. Christ, Larry King would have done a more credible interview. Maybe Matthews was off his game due to disbelief over the pure bullshit & hatred coming out of Brown's pie hole.
Side Bar #2: Politically, I lean a tad ,a smidge, a jot, a whit left of center. That makes me, according to certain elements in this country, "A liberal".
On most social issues that is probably true. If not wanting intrusion from the government or others into my or anyone's private life (including the bedroom), then I'm a liberal. However, I'm so fiscally conservative that I make $crooge McDuck look like a spendthrift. I don't want to continue wasting tax dollers on failed programs designed to help someone "get a leg up". Win or lose, let us live our lives.
After watching the Brown carnival & the actual lack of any challenge to this hatred, I'm so ticked off, that I hereby now declare myself, a full fledged, 100% died- in-the-wool liberal. In the words of President Geo. W. Bush,"Thanks Brownie, you're doing a heckava job".
Side bar#3: To all the hate spewing "righties", Beck, Limbaugh, Brown, Bachmann, Colter, Ingraham, Fox News & others of their ilk... in the words of the great American John Stewart, " Go fuck yourself".