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By all means, tread on those people
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Barbara Walters Special
Barbara Walters is going to have a special where she interviews the 10 most fascinating people of 2008. What a hollow and self-serving shill she is. What talent or skill did she ever really have, other than the enduring fame she garnered by being skewered for so many years on Saturday Night Live.
Perhaps something else will be on television that night, something not so baseless. Perhaps there is a show on the Gem shopping network, or maybe I can get a free miracle prayer-scarf blessed by some snake-charmer preacher in Tennessee. Or if I'm really lucky, I can learn how the proper and regular use of enemas holds the key to a long and healthy life.
Perhaps something else will be on television that night, something not so baseless. Perhaps there is a show on the Gem shopping network, or maybe I can get a free miracle prayer-scarf blessed by some snake-charmer preacher in Tennessee. Or if I'm really lucky, I can learn how the proper and regular use of enemas holds the key to a long and healthy life.
The TV networks are dead, the final insult
Television is dead. I mean, even more than yesterday. My wife and I have cable to enjoy the pay-movie channels and sports. But that is getting hard to tolerate. Two hundred channels for gems, auctions, and hustlers selling everything from Jesus to sex. They pay the cable companies for access, and we subsidize it by paying for cable.
The networks are so bad that they make cable a necessity. The news programs are just shills for their own reality shows, every half-hour of programming has fifteen minutes of commercials, and canned or studio directed laughter still is the most unfunny sound there is.
And now there is a new assault upon the viewer, the final insult for me. Like pop-up windows on the internet, viewers have to endure the images of people and skits superimposed over the program they are watching, filling up a portion of the screen with ads and hype for mind-numbing new series or for future shows. How insulting.
That's it. The days of watching a movie on network are over. I guess I'll have to endure the insult when watching sports.
But I have a message for the television executives.
You suck.
The networks are so bad that they make cable a necessity. The news programs are just shills for their own reality shows, every half-hour of programming has fifteen minutes of commercials, and canned or studio directed laughter still is the most unfunny sound there is.
And now there is a new assault upon the viewer, the final insult for me. Like pop-up windows on the internet, viewers have to endure the images of people and skits superimposed over the program they are watching, filling up a portion of the screen with ads and hype for mind-numbing new series or for future shows. How insulting.
That's it. The days of watching a movie on network are over. I guess I'll have to endure the insult when watching sports.
But I have a message for the television executives.
You suck.
Who is to blame for the big-3 auto debacle
In regards to the big 3-auto meltdown, I’ve heard a lot of talk about the bloated union contracts lately, how the high wages and cost of health and retirement benefits for union autoworkers immediately dooms the American auto industry.
Let’s remember why unions exist in the first place, because of the abuse that the American worker has endured at the hands of management over the years. I see nothing different today.
Corporate executives that make tens of millions a year yet don’t modernize their operations or change with the times. Isn’t that kind of compensation outright larceny? To me it seems like stealing from the shareholders. In addition, all of these CEOs sit on each other’s boards of directors, and always seem ready to approve the highest compensation packages for one another.
Unions? The credit crisis started the downward spiral in the auto industry, and the arrogant CEO-asses show up in Washington in their corporate jets. After they get their hands slapped, they drive back looking for handouts in hybrids. What an act.
What we are watching is an assault on the middle class in America. What place does the American worker occupy in a global economy? None as far as I can see, unless you want to include the fast-food service or lawn-care industries.
Let’s remember why unions exist in the first place, because of the abuse that the American worker has endured at the hands of management over the years. I see nothing different today.
Corporate executives that make tens of millions a year yet don’t modernize their operations or change with the times. Isn’t that kind of compensation outright larceny? To me it seems like stealing from the shareholders. In addition, all of these CEOs sit on each other’s boards of directors, and always seem ready to approve the highest compensation packages for one another.
Unions? The credit crisis started the downward spiral in the auto industry, and the arrogant CEO-asses show up in Washington in their corporate jets. After they get their hands slapped, they drive back looking for handouts in hybrids. What an act.
What we are watching is an assault on the middle class in America. What place does the American worker occupy in a global economy? None as far as I can see, unless you want to include the fast-food service or lawn-care industries.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Georgia, shame on you
Georgia, shame on you. As if you needed Sarah Palin to make you look this bad.
Saxby Chambliss, Elected but Guilty
As all America looks at the cheaters and swindlers that have brought us to where we are, we ought to take a fresh look at Saxby Chambliss. He is the Republican that accused Max Cleland of failure to defend the Constitution. The three limbs Cleland sacrificed in Vietnam wasn't enough. When it is time to make the CIOs of AIG and other financial institutions that have gone bust accountable for their actions, it is high time to look at this Cretin for the lies and deceit he has spread on the honorable service of others
That the hollow Sarah Palin became a part of this spectacle in Georgia is not surprising. Ambition aside, every time she opens her mouth she reveals the ugly truth about herself: aside from ambition, she offers naught but ignorance and hate.
Real veterans will remember.
That the hollow Sarah Palin became a part of this spectacle in Georgia is not surprising. Ambition aside, every time she opens her mouth she reveals the ugly truth about herself: aside from ambition, she offers naught but ignorance and hate.
Real veterans will remember.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Sylvian Ofiara
Sylvian Ofiara is an artist and a photographer from Manchester, Connecticut.
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