Easter, Left Media, $24 Muffins, and Ross Perot

I feel kinda weird writing " Happy Good Friday", however, knwoing the end of the story I believe, it's OK. I hope you guys have a great Easter weekend. Check out THIS video that is a very humorous look at Easter - unfortunately by an admitted atheist and one of my favorite comedians. - http://youtu.be/_XJfRzNOJNE

When I get a chance, I listen to as much left leaning rhetoric as possible. The Stepahnie Miller Show is TV's newest entry-  http://www.stephaniemiller.com/. Stephanie Miller, billed as a sexy liberal, at least is easy to look at while she and the fawning, seemingly well educated and even sometimes humorous males shake their heads in agreement sputing their terse anti-right quips. I sometimes watch the "Free Speech" network - https://www.freespeech.org/. Basically TV friendly NPR rejects attempting to be a left leaning version of Fox News. I do not believe Keith Olberman's departure from Current TV will be the end of the network as many think. Though Al Gore's broadcast company was in trouble before the Olberman incident. Real Time w/ Bill Maher does make me think a little. Though I probably disagree with his anti-religion, anti right/Republican rants, he brings some interesting points to the table and isn't afraid t0 bash the left at times.. Like me, he seems to be an equal opportunity offender when twisting his view of the world.

The right's latest lament is the recent finding's concerning a General Services Administration training conference in October 2010 at the M Resort Spa Casino outside Las Vegas that was precluded with $100k exploratory trips to see if they (the GSA) can have their lavish meeting. Folk's, I can recall these types of lavish government waste since I became aware of things in the 70's by BOTH parties. These types of stories are plentiful within both the Democratic and Republican parties.

The right's "holier-than-thou" outcries and too numerous blogs, editorial opinions, news stories, and countless hours speaking their anti-Obama rhetoric are laughable. Laughable because that's all those on the right do. They launch really good ideas- The Reform Party (Ross Perot)-  the Contract with America in the mid 90's, and the Tea Party a few years ago. These great ideas inspire many before eventually losing steam or becoming corrupt or not exactly what they seem to be. Usually in the end, they disenfranchise those who supported them and leave their remnants disillusioned. Yet we hear each and every Presidential election how important and critical the upcoming election is. Isn't each one critical regardless of who's running? I'm not looking forward to Obama vs Romney.

Trayvon madness continues. Dick Durbin is chairing a hearing on racial profiling in America to be held on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 10:00am ET. Stories of anti white attacks are emerging much like they tend to do.

The world, once again is doomed. Click HERE.
As bad as things are for us economically and seemingly socially, I do not believe all is lost. I believe we will recover. Perhaps not as quickly or as much as I'd like, but I believe what I love and like about the USA will prevail. Not in a faux, hokey, if anything has 'USA" or "God" in it it MUST be 'good and right' kind of way.. Know what I mean?

What say you?

Sad News To My Friends and Former Co-Workers

I got this from CBSnews.com at their CBS Moneywatch website concerning jobs that are or will soon be disappearing..

http://www.cbsnews.com/8334-505143_162-57343788/will-these-10-jobs-disappear-in-2012/?pageNum=5&tag=next

Will these 10 jobs disappear in 2012?

By Louise Tutelian

Newspaper reporter

Read it and weep: According to the BLS, a whopping 4,400 jobs will disappear by 2018 (out of 69,400 total in 2008). That's more than three times the number of newsroom employees at The New York Times. The bad news for print can be summed up in one word: Internet. "Some of the print people are finding jobs online," says Lauren Csorny, an economist at the BLS. But there aren't enough to make up for the losses. No wonder that newspaper reporters ranked No. 184 out of 200 jobs, one slot above stevedore, in CareerCast.com's annual JobsRated survey.


Broadcast announcer

The play-by-play for this occupation isn't pretty. Consolidation has eliminated many jobs already, and technology is hijacking off-air tasks, such as editing, once performed by announcers (and future announcers paying their dues). Add the increased use of syndication and the growth of satellite radio and the picture is even bleaker. By 2018, broadcasting is expected to lose 2,400 radio and TV announcer jobs.


of course, this really isn't news to most of us who work or used to work in the industry -- John 

Barry Soetorro Emails

Just as when Bill Clinton and George Bush were President, I get emails from well intentioned people wanting to make me aware of "the secrets and lies" of President Barrack Obama.

I think there are a lot of well-intentioned people who love the USA and see how things are going, don’t like it. These people often unite and will write, say, or do ANYTHING to fight back or try to get others to see or identify with their misery or pain in an effort to “right the wrong”. In an overwhelmingly majority of these cases, they take truths, half- truths, plausible facts, and even lies and misinformation for whatever reason to suite themselves or their cause.

All this is done, passed around, etc. instead of affecting REAL change or really DOING anything about what is “wrong”. People feel so helpless and will take on these truthful sounding theories, warnings, etc. These people don’t understand that if they use HALFthe effort they use to obsess over something or get together to discuss and perpetuate these types of well-intended misinformation, then perhaps they themselves would be a little happier and their satisfaction or happiness would come from THATthan smearing whoever’s president at the time.

As to the Barry Soetorro emails, well Barry Soetorro definitely is/was/’temporarily aint’ his real name. Most anti Barrack email’s facts twists the truths differently than other Obama hate emails. Some are better written than others, actually. See (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories). But like all good fairy tales and campfire stories, they are based on truths and facts.

My question is, so what? ‘You can’t get the horse shit back into the horse’. Where do we go from here?

If Barry held a press conference and stated, “Yep, I ain’t ‘merican. Good bye!” and left, where would we be?

It would take YEARS to legally undo everything he has so far in his short presidency signed into legislation or law. Joe Biden would take over and simply re-sign the legislation after it was re-passed (passed again? LOL!) by the same folks who passed it (the House and Senate).

Most importantly, what is the alternative to what we now have? Are the current Republicans vying for the oval office really any different than what we have now?

But never mind the reality of things. Let’s just all keep on complaining about gas, food, healthcare, our government, etc while not really doing anything about it. Waking up when the house is on fire is not a good time to decide to fire-proof the house.

--John