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June 14, 2009

Are you with me on this?

I sometimes watch Chris Matthews' Hardball. As I have said before in other posts, I don't watch much TV. In watching this show, I find Matthews to be sometimes kind of irritating.

It's his manner of speaking, and his pronunciation of words that gets me.

I know I am being nit-picky, superficial and silly but this affects my ability to watch Hardball. His pronunciation of certain words or names like Cheney get to me. He pronounces the name "Cheeney." Yes, there's an interesting controversy about this particular pronunciation: Liz Cheney v. Lynne Cheney/Chris Matthews on Pronunciation . (So maybe he's actually correct here!)
But there are other little things he says that just add up to irritation-at least to me. He pronounced Holocaust several times the other day as "Hollycaust"; he pronouced zealot, which I would pronounce and I would assume most other people would pronounce as "zeh-lut"; as "zeh-lot"- accenting the first syllable, instead of balancing both. He reads news items incorrectly all the time. They're all jumbled up, mixed up. He starts reading a quote, then has to start over-all the time. He asks people for their viewpoints, then interrupts them while they are speaking to ask about something else.
Also, that weird, downward-turned mouth of his. What's with that?! Is it just me?!

I know-it's stupid.

I subscribe to The Frank Factor channel on Youtube. TheFrankFactor He's like an uncensored, raging Billo, but on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum. I check him out when I need an antidote for the righty stuff I sometimes check out. If you check him out, keep in mind that he is raging! He uses a lot of cussing to get his point across!
He uses the term "fucktard" a lot! I can't help it but when I think of the term "fucktard," I think along these lines:

October 9, 2008

You gotta be kiddin' me!

Come on people! you can do better than this! She has many more problems with being VP material than a magazine cover that shows a few stray hairs! Hey Barbie! You and Ms.Tantaros look like you are doing an SNL skit here! Unbelievable!

I thought the Young Turks had a great response to the above Fox dilemma!

I need to get off this political stuff for a little! It makes my blood boil!
Anyway, I wish I knew Spanish better! I would have loved to hear what this poor guy was saying to the reporter under his breath!

October 5, 2008

Nothing much...

Hey folks. Been really busy with work lately, and haven't felt like posting much anyways. I have been watching more TV news shows lately-interested in how things are turning out.
I haven't even been visiting other blogs very much lately. I want to get back into it soon! I need to catch up though, at least on my dumb comments sometime soon! So blogmates-I will be seeing you soon!

I was wondering what Fox News was lying about earlier, so I turned the TV on and saw the typical barbie anchor giving a report about Sarah Palin's jabs at Obama's acquaintance with Bill Ayers at a rally. The other anchor then said something like "...in the interests of fairness, since we already spoke with Obama's campaign manager, we now have Tucker Bounds, John McCain's campaign manager."
Now, if Fox News was actually fair and balanced, like they claim to be, this wouldn't be the punchline it is. I mean, come on! This network has been hammering away at Obama for every little thing ever since he was jumped into the race. They have had guest after guest, and show after show try to smear and malign Obama's campaign. To say that they have even tried to give airtime to Obama in a positive manner is truly insulting. And Fox "News" is truly a joke. (I know, I know-that's not groundbreaking news) I actually managed to laugh a little at the inanity.

Also, I just need to say something. There is a lot of divisiveness in America right now. As a progressive/liberal person, I see a lot of that divisiveness coming from the right-the right in our country is on alert right now, trying to play catch up now that Obama's lead in the polls is growing. Looking at comments in the blogs-Liveleak, or Youtube, it is clear that some on the right are afraid of a black President, even one who is, in my opinion, not very liberal at all. I would characterize Obama's platform and beliefs as a moderate to even conservative Democrat. I am more like a Kucinich (or more!) Demo, but I do think Obama would a great President. He would take us light years away from the mess we are in now, that's for sure!
I know that there are some on the left who say dumb things that can rub people the wrong way, but I think the right in this country is reactionary-(I guess that's why they are called reactionaries). Everything is a harsh, negative , and sometimes outright threatening reaction to change, or new ideas.
I was watching Fox later in the day, and guess what? They have hired Mike Huckabee to host his own show! Only on Fox! Fair and Balanced-yes indeed. Mike Huckabee!
It even shows up (a little) in one of my son's kids videos. Just recently, he had a birthday, and received a Veggietales video. Veggietales is produced by a conservative christian company, but I had never heard of anything, or thought that the company would be brazen enough to fill these particular movies with rightie beliefs that showed that particular bias. I was wrong. I was watching one of the movies with my son the other day, and an old west character was narrating, talking about traveling in the West, and he says "Indians" and then quickly corrected himself and said "oh, excuse me!" "Native Americans!" Personally, I don't think my Indian friends or neighbors mind being called Indians. I use that term. It was the way the character in the movie-a old west Yosemite Sam-like character- said it that got my goat. It was said in a snide, condescending way. I know this may sound silly to some, but taken with all the other crap, it gets to me sometimes. All this rightie claptrap!

Tina Fey does it again:

Nicholas Gurewitch's Perry Bible Fellowship has always been a favorite of mine!

I have had Don Asmussen's Bad Reporter comic on here before also! It's great!

I hadn't had any of Derf's The City comics here before! I am sorry that I hadn't!

July 9, 2008

Let the Triops eat them!

As you might have seen me mention before, I try to keep the political discussion in more capable blogmate's hands, but due to the fact that I decided to watch some TV for a change, I have to vent! July 3 I watched a little more TV than I usually do. I don't watch much at all. I have a few comedy and news shows that I like but I was reminded today why I don't watch too much of the news type shows.

I watched a little of the Joe Scarbourough show-(I like Rachel Maddow). One of the subjects was Obama's supposed flip flops-especially on the Iraq war. Scarborough is such douche! I can't stand that guy! His caveats to centrist or rarely-liberal positions don't erase the fact that this guy goes too often with the right wing flow. Tonight, he repeatedly interrupted Rachel, and made light of her comments even as she made every effort to answer Scarborough effectively and accurately. And of course, the deck was stacked-there were 4 other centrist to right wing guests to Maddow's progressive stance! Of course! At one point, Ol' Scar said Maddow didn't have the answer he wanted, but he said she sure could cackle like Hillary! Rachel was very visably upset! She looked like she was gonna kill Ol' Scar! I was pretty mad too! I wish I coulda jumped into the TV set and threw a few punches at Scar's big wedge-shaped head! Of course, it was never explained exactly how the Obama statements made earlier in the day regarding the Iraq war amounted to a flip flop from previous statements! I felt then and there that this segment would generate some discussion on the blogs and sure enough, Daily Kos had this:

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/3/195510/5814/928/546212

One thing about Maddow-she doesn't sit there quietly and put up with Joe's crap! I like the way she doesn't back down!

Later, I watched The O'Reilly Factor with John Kasich (subbing for Orally)-another right wing a-hole. If you have ever watched Heartland-the show he usually hosts, you might have noticed that Kasich seems to do this weird thing with his eyes, blinking them quickly like he has some kind of tic when he gets angry at some imagined left wing abomination! His head tilts to one side menacingly like some kind of schoolyard bully telling a kid to give up his milk money, and he seems to to be looking for a fight! And those eyes! They blink ever so quickly ! He's another guy that deserves a coupla nails pounded into his head. Naw! Just kidding-I wouldn't do that! I would only want to drive screws through that fool head of his with its weird blinking eyes!
Anyway, I watched Kasich and Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown debate Dr. Marc Lamont-Hill about the singing by of Rene Marie of the "black national anthem"-("Lift Every Voice and Sing") in Denver for the annual State of the City Address.

I thought Dr. Lamont-Hill really did a great job here! He didn't back down and got in a few jabs at Kasich even while being interrupted often as per Fox News policy. Now, I agree that maybe Marie should have asked if she could do a different version, but really, I think the Mayor and Brown are playing politics here, and racial politics at that! Lamont-Hill exposed the fact that at least Brown would not have felt the same indignation at a non-African-American-penned patriotic song if it had been sung by Marie. Kasich went on the warpath about Marie's statements in the past-head lolling to the side, eyes a-blinking-but I think, overall, Lamont-Hill did a great job here! I am surprised that Fox had not gotten someone like Juan Williams to bash around!

I had a hard time watching these shows. Its no wonder I don't watch too much TV!

Well, we recently got our son some a neat little science thing where you hatch and raise strange little creatures called Triops. They are a cool little science thing to do with your kids. Pretty interesting too. They have been around since the dinosaurs!

Triops.com – Home of Triassic Triops’ Dinosaur Shrimp.

Yep-we were in the hobby shop and our son likes to do science experiments, so I decided to get this little kit for him. It was a good thing we got two little kits-we spilled the first egg capsule and lost the eggs since these triops eggs are like a very fine powder! We used the capsule from the 2nd kit, and hoped for the best. There were lots of requirements for hatching the eggs-you have to use spring water; not too much water; has to be a certain temperature; have a lot of light, can't do this, can't do that, etc. We could do the spring water and try with the temperature, but that's about all we could do. I didn't think anything would come of it.

Surprise! On the 3rd day we could see these teeny little creatures wiggling around in the water! There were about 8 of them. They grew fast and soon were about a 1/4 inch long from their rounded head to their spiny, pointy, two-pronged tail. We are now on about the 12th day, and they are about 3/4 to almost an inch long! There are now only 3 of the little guys or girls left! We found out by reading the package and seeing firsthand that these creatures eat their own! Yes, they are cannibals! But they only seem to do it to get rid of the ones who would being down the triop...err... race! We observed one of the 3 larger ones eating a less fortunate smaller, possibly weaker, triop! As he/she devoured the other triop it looked a little weird and kinda macabre to tell you the truth!

After watching the Scarborough show and Kasich on O'Reilly's show, I kinda wondered what would happen if the triops wreaked vengeance on these two right wing whinies!

Here now, for your sick viewing pleasure, here is Scarborough and Kasich getting eaten alive by triops!

Scaring the Scallops out of Scarborough-

Scene 1:

"Hi. I'm Whinemaster Scar here. Where is Rachel? Where is she!? I want to interrupt her repeatedly! Damn it! Rachel!"

Scene 2-Scar finds a friend?
"Hey-what's this? Aww, this little creature is kinda cute. I think I'll just hold it and cuddle it for a while."

Scene 3-The end.
"Arrgh! It's attacking me! Arrrghh! Help! Rachel must have trained it to kill! Glorb! Gak! Gurgle!"

Kabobing Kasich-Rated R-The Kabobing will only be done to excessively-blinking Republican bullies.
Scene 1: Kasich hears something weird in the Fox News Studio:
"Hey! What was that!?" (blink, blink, blink) I feel like I'm being watched!"

Scene 2: Kasich confronts the triops:
"Who are you, and what do you want!? (blink, blink, blink) And why are you looking at me with those three strange little eyes of yours?!"

Scene 3 (the best part!) Kasich is devoured by the triops!: "Hey! What the!? Owww! You little! Ahhh! Ahhhh! I'm done for, folks! This little shit's gonna ki...Awww! For the love of Rupert Murdoch! Ahhhh!

Hope you liked those two little vignettes of triop terror!

Related Tags:Joe+Scarborough Morning+Joe Rachel+Maddow Barack+Obama John+Kasich Heartland O'Reilly+Factor Fox+News Dr.+Marc+Lamont+Hill Rene+Marie Denver National+Anthem Charlie+Brown triops

March 12, 2008

Dischord in the newsroom, troublesome humor, and napkin music

Gee whiz I'm glad I get along-(generally) with my co-workers! These guys will probably beat the crap out of each other in the parking garage after work!

I have always loved Troubletown! The way Lloyd Dangle draws his characters with their constant scowls is funny enough, but he also seems to often have some insightful takes on today's politics! Here is his observation of how the news media deals with Obama vs McCain:

On the Troubletown site there are some kinda cool little things you can do-like ask Alberto Gonzalez a question, see who will fill the great Reagan mold, and some funny drawings from his sketchbook, and the Troubletown blog: Welcome to Troubletown.com

We all need a little break from our super serious world every now and then. Some of us will read...some listen to a good comedian...some listen to music. Yeah, music- sweet, sweet music. How it can soothe the soul! This is just cool. A musical about an available napkin! I have posted some of Improv Everywhere's skits before-I really like them! I think the reaction on people's faces is great when the actors begin doing their stuff! The people eating and doing whatever they were doing at the food court seem to enjoy this kind of musical theater!

November 16, 2007

Childish chunks of churches, Cheney, and choppy channel chortles.

As you might have noticed, I have been running on empty lately for posting stuff. I am trying to get back into the swing of things, but work has been extremely busy and stressful lately too, so that hasn't helped. Oh well, here goes with a few things...

Our Vice Prez is such a guy. Here he is in his classic look.

I know...I know! The above post makes me want to chuck up chunks! Maybe these will give you a laugh or two!

This is a kinda shocking clip.

July 7, 2007

Do you feel like I do? Weird? Thank goodness you're weird too!

Hey everyone! Hope your weekend is going well! I came across this clip a couple of years ago and thought it was pretty funny, especially if you have seen the Dateline To Catch A Predator series. Hey, you might have seen it also before, but what the heck see it again! The guy in the Primate parody has Chris Hansen's voice, tone and expression down! Enjoy!

While checking out some clips relating to TCAP, I came across this one. Kinda funny too, and an interesting premise. How do they find the (supposedly?!) underage actors for the set up scenes for the TCAP series?

Ha ha! Conan O'Brien is pretty funny!

Ok, enough of that! I'm feelin' kinda weird. Need some weird comedy. Here's some weird, funny comedians. The first is Steven Wright

Then next comedian is Mitch Hedberg. RIP. I came across this guy several years ago. When I first saw him, it may have been on Letterman or Conan and I thought he was blind! He just came across that way with the way he hardly looked at the crowd-he mostly looked down at the floor (actually you couldn't tell with those dark glasses!)He had a great"stoner"-like delivery and like Steven Wright he had material that makes you think. He's sorely missed.