Looks like we’re not the only nation struggling with religious fundamentalists taking over thr courts and government. Indian officials have taken a page from the John Ashcroft playbook and issued a warrant for Richard Gere’s arrest for his repeated cheek pecking of a Bollywood actress at a recent AIDS benefit. Awesome, apparently Bush appoints judges there too. I struggle to see how they aren’t offended by his movies, but when he’s himself all hell breaks loose, where were these people when Mr. T and the Women came to theaters?
Kudos, upon kudos for Roger Ebert. The stalwart Chicago movie critic shows that life for public figures doesn’t end when the going gets tough. His story also sheds light on a bigger problem with current American culture, an immature aversion to seeing reality…whether it be aging celebs, those suffering from illness or the abandoned, riddled bodies of our war wounded. Life isn’t always pretty, but dammit that’s the point. I’d enjoy shaking Mr. Ebert’s hand, not for having the balls to be out (which is commendable) but because he makes no apologies for ‘being’.
Read about it.
CBS Radio Show Hosts Suspended After Prank Call
Taking a note from the great Rev. Al the Organization of Chinese Americans has gotten 2 NY radio hosts suspened and are demanding their firing ala fellow CBS’er Don Imus. It’s over gang, there was a time that free speech meant free, no more. We’ve lost the war by sleeping through the battles. People need to wake up and understand it’s not about the content, it’s about the freedom to have the content you chose. Today it’s idiot ’shock-jocks’ tomorrow it’s people who disagree with the president, next week it’s anyone who doesn’t share the opinion of Clear Channel, and then we’re all through…Overly dramatic? Not in the least.
This is what they would deal with.
Please don’t bother me with small details right now. Your job is to develop the overall plans for the house: get the big picture. At this time, for example, it is not appropriate to be choosing the color of the carpet.
However, keep in mind that my wife likes blue.
W..T..F..?
Yeah that’s all I can say about the surreal images in “ARMED AMERICA” Portraits of Gun Owners in their Homes. We’re in for a whirlwind of gun control debate in the coming weeks. I personally don’t get it, I don’t understand this gun culture in the least. And while it may be a right afforded under the consitution - if you want to interpret it as such - I don’t know how you can say it’s a God-given right.
A gun lobbytist would look at the picture below and say “How nice, a family that’s close and shares something together”, I look at it and can’t get over how irresponsible it appears.
If you even remotely care about the racial issues that have been stirred by the Imus controversy you need to read Jason Whitlock’s column in today’s Kansas City Star. It’s also mentioned here.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.
It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
CBS has turned coward sided with extremists and hypocrites, pandering to the worst opportunists the black community has to offer. Shame on them and their advertisers. Shame on all of them.
Godawful cowards, the whole lot of them. We’ve taken the step, we’ve turned a corner. We’ll speak of this again, in days when we say “remeber when…remember when we could say what we thought. When we understood words only had the power you choose to have. Remember when we weren’t all victims?”
Damn cowards, the whole lot of them. You’re all adults you make the decisions you feel are the right ones. Me, I don’t think CBS needs my business, nor do Staples, GM, AmEX, Bigelow Tea, etc. I’ll make a decision next time I have a choice and chose to not support these companies. You know they have a lot of customers, many of whom won’t tolerate this nonsense. If this is an economic issue, as CBS and MSNBC obviously believes it is, then make it so, show them why siding with extremists and bigots isn’t standing with tolerance, but stepping on it.
Al Sharpton riding a wave of liberal, white guilt will wreck this nation and do as much or more damage to our freedoms than Bush has in his two terms. We must fight to protect our right as citizens to say and print and think what we choose when we choose. This issue is bigger than any we’ve faced in recent memory. Bigger than the war, this is the fundamental freedom those men and women are dying for, and this awful, despicable hypocrite is pushing to destroy it. Fight back.
Dear Ms. Police Officer,
Thank you for not giving me a ticket this morning. You were gracious enough to let me be on my way, even though I was certainly in the wrong.
Thanks,
Me
P.S. - Just curious, why the hell is the speed limit for a major suburban 4+lane street 25mph? No schools nearby, no nursing homes, just mixed residential and commercial properties. This 25mph limit is one heckuva great way to make some big money for a tiny neighborhood. Oh well, next time I’ll take the freeway.
To all the folks who are complaining about the RIAA and the MPAA and DVD encrytption, etc. I’d like to say “Get Over It”. Just let it go, there are much bigger problems in the world today and sometimes it’s best just to walk away and expend your energy on more important things.
Case in point, the RIAA radar which “is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America.” Great I needed one of those so the next time I purchase an album I know I am pissing off a bunch of miserly little geeks in camo shorts and black socks who don’t like DRM.
