The Daily Beast lists 56 cities from smartest to dumbest.
Las Vegas, as usual is one of the dumbest cities in the United States. (Number 55!) With only 7% of our citizens with Masters Degrees, 14 % with a Bachelors and a dismal high school graduation rate, we can proudly call Sharon Angle our own, can't we??
Monday, October 25, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Randy Michaels-When Your Age Doesn't Get It..
At one time, former radio shock jock Randy Michaels was a maverick, just like McCain.
Their words were admired and actions tolerated.
People shrugged and said, "Hey, they make money(or policy).
What neither of them get is age IS a factor. Randy Michael's frat house behavior was considered cute when he was-but as an old man- he is considered perverse in some way, immature and offensive. The old, "bare your breast " jokes may have been seen as over the top in the eighties but the Hooter's girls see a bespectacled old man holding a 100 dollar bill in his pudgy fist and think, "there are limits to this job, pervert.."
American culture looks askance (I am sure that is on Michaels list of 163 words not to use in journalism)
at men as they age-the jokes are no longer ladened with a" sexy masculine virility " they are viewed as repulsive, immature and a sort of expected male senior moment.
If you are a man over the age of sixty and still telling sex jokes let me give the picture in the brain of those under that age-a dirty old man fondling what is left of his balls.
Not a pretty sight?
Randy Michaels broke all the rules.Twenty years ago it was outrageous, cute and the generation loved it.
He forgets, his generation looks a lot like him now-with one exception-
they grew up.
Their words were admired and actions tolerated.
People shrugged and said, "Hey, they make money(or policy).
What neither of them get is age IS a factor. Randy Michael's frat house behavior was considered cute when he was-but as an old man- he is considered perverse in some way, immature and offensive. The old, "bare your breast " jokes may have been seen as over the top in the eighties but the Hooter's girls see a bespectacled old man holding a 100 dollar bill in his pudgy fist and think, "there are limits to this job, pervert.."
American culture looks askance (I am sure that is on Michaels list of 163 words not to use in journalism)
at men as they age-the jokes are no longer ladened with a" sexy masculine virility " they are viewed as repulsive, immature and a sort of expected male senior moment.
If you are a man over the age of sixty and still telling sex jokes let me give the picture in the brain of those under that age-a dirty old man fondling what is left of his balls.
Not a pretty sight?
Randy Michaels broke all the rules.Twenty years ago it was outrageous, cute and the generation loved it.
He forgets, his generation looks a lot like him now-with one exception-
they grew up.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Christopher Columbus A Fairy Tale
We Americans live in such a world of fantasy. Trusting historical tales is tricky.
Christopher Columbus never reached North America. He landed on Haiti and Cuba. Spent time in islands off the coast of South America.
Why do we teach kids otherwise?
The roundness of the earth was established long before he took his three ships out to sea.
Paul Bunyan and Babe, Pecos Bill-acknowledged tall tales.
Columbus has historical significance in a small way.
But a holiday? A legal holiday?
Christopher Columbus never reached North America. He landed on Haiti and Cuba. Spent time in islands off the coast of South America.
Why do we teach kids otherwise?
The roundness of the earth was established long before he took his three ships out to sea.
Paul Bunyan and Babe, Pecos Bill-acknowledged tall tales.
Columbus has historical significance in a small way.
But a holiday? A legal holiday?
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Democrats lose majority in 2010 race!!
Open Letter to DemocratsJune 18, 2009
Dear Democratic leaders,
What in the hell are you doing?
Harry and Nancy, can't you keep your kids in line?
You are going to give this country back to the crazies and the only reason will be the sheer disgust of supporters at your utter lack of cohesiveness.
An obvious flaw you all might not notice? No teamwork! You have members out there spouting off to the media to make a name for themselves -damn the teamwork. Every time I turn on the TV I see some red herring democrat vowing not to follow party lines.
What the hell!
You were elected to follow party lines.
Message to the egos-if you want to make a name for yourself-you are doing it-you will get voted right out of office. You don't think people notice backstabbing??-that's not independence-it's disloyalty and voters remember come election time.
Lately I am not a big fan of any party. Personally, I think the party is over for both sides.
But I am trying to give you a little advice here-you are going to lose your asses if you keep this up.
Citizens WANT affordable health care coverage, they DON"T WANT your sucking up and taking money from health care lobbyists and spinning it by calling it "independent thoughtfulness" on your part.
Voters want you to quit sucking up to the financial sector and get the country out of this mess.
Nail those credit card company extortionists.
US citizens voted for President Obama. Give US citizens what Obama promised. Quit undermining your own frickin party!
The Republicans party looks like satanists right now but you know something? At least they followed their leader-they got things done. Nothing voters wanted for sure-look at our country!
You are going to lose the opportunity to make this country whole again-or is that it? That is what you want? Your election is all about the money from the PACS, the lobbyists and your ego?
Keep this up and next election we will have a country comparable to any oppressive regime out there-and the Ayatollah (Gingrich). (Limbaugh),(crazylady Palin) or some other wing nut will be cramming their version of "Family Values" down our throats.
Get with the frickin program or you won't have a seat let alone a platform.
Follow the damn sheep and get something done up there!
When You Believe You are So, Absolutely, Right
There is nothing so dangerous as a person who believes they are "absolutely right".
Absolutes are rare and belong to the category of natural elements not crackpot politics, in which we are all "absolutely certain" the incumbent is incompetent and out to screw us and the "fresh meat" would do no such thing..
Absolutes are rare and belong to the category of natural elements not crackpot politics, in which we are all "absolutely certain" the incumbent is incompetent and out to screw us and the "fresh meat" would do no such thing..
Saturday, October 02, 2010
When Did We Decide Money Was More Important Than Human Lives?
The United States of Capitalism, Corporations, and For Profit Greed.
Our country's politicians have given away our citizenships to profit making mega corporations and death is considered a minor fallout..
When we allow our government to pass laws, policies and budgets so corrupt and obviously destructive to our citizens' lives, we no longer can call ourselves a country, let alone a democracy.
We are a corporatocracy., ruled by the interests of the corporations buying our congress.
We can vote out the politicians but until we take action to eliminate the corporations in our government workings,
we will continue our slide into third world status.
Our country's politicians have given away our citizenships to profit making mega corporations and death is considered a minor fallout..
When we allow our government to pass laws, policies and budgets so corrupt and obviously destructive to our citizens' lives, we no longer can call ourselves a country, let alone a democracy.
We are a corporatocracy., ruled by the interests of the corporations buying our congress.
We can vote out the politicians but until we take action to eliminate the corporations in our government workings,
we will continue our slide into third world status.
US-Master of the Bully
Bullying is an art form in the US.
How can you expect kids to refrain from bullying?
Our television shows are predicated on it (most reality shows feature humiliation and degradation )
Our politicians use media outlets to lie, twist and rant untruths -(about our own President), and with elections in progress-are you kidding? Classic examples for kids to learn how to destroy another human.
Our news media is full of untruths, lies and twisted quotes.
Media uses tweets, blogs, radio, tv and print to write lies, deceptions and twisted truths , once thrown out there they can hardly be dispelled in as powerful a manner as they have been announced,
How can anyone in this crazy, convoluted culture expect kids to not do what adults are teaching them to do so well?
Destroy others because you can.
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