Michael Jackson ..R.I.P....Our Culture is circling the Drain
In the days of Eric Severeid and John Chancellor, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, I wonder if the passing of Michael Jackson would have garnered more than a passing note down at the bottom of a national broadcast somewhere near the weather, or in the case of Harry Reasoner, a snarky comment about mail carrier strikes and those of us paying bills late.
Michael Jackson is dead. The swarm of national media feeding off of every comment from his doctors trial is driving me nuts. Why does the national media feel that every one out here is wrapped up in every minute detail of his last breath, word, foul dead and song?
We all know what he did, his petulance for fame, self-absorption, young children and hype.
Love him or hate him, ignore him or burn him in effigy, tough...he's gone. Over. Get a life. Buy the records, and play them if you must, get his face off television, stop the worship on TV, and get back to the things we really need to be concerned with.
In other words, get a life. There are so many other things to do except watch this stuff. At the very least, go feed some hungry children. Volunteer to help poor kids in school, help them read. Believe me most schools beg for adults to help them tutor kids who are miles behind in the reading and understanding.
Do something other than worship this guy. Do something else, anything else, just turn off the tube and play with your dog.
Oh, you don't know what else is going on in the world?
Iran just took a punch at us - we arrested a couple of clowns (US citizens naturalized who wanted to kill an ambassador living in DC) Iran has war ships now in the Atlantic, and now has fisionable material - make big boom.
Wake the hell up. Write your Congressman. Never mind, Congress has a lower approval rating than the president. (CNN)
Eric Holder (our erstwhile top law guy in DC) screwed up "Fast & Furious" and lost track, (?) of a couple of thousand guns that got into Mexico and killed a lot of folks. One of which is ours.
What's worse - it's getting worse, and he's hiding from Congress. (and us) And they are going to subpoena him for testimony. Uh-oh? Gungate?
Where is all that TRANSPARENCY that we were promised?
Remember, " We are going to put it all on the internet?"...I do.
Now, everybody is taking shots at us: Mexico, Iran, now Russian Prez Putin wants his old job back and get this, " I vant to put back together old Union Soviet Socialist Republics."
So, how come all the dark horse black hats in the world figure it's time to try and knock us off? Hmmm?
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Michael Jackson is dead. The swarm of national media feeding off of every comment from his doctors trial is driving me nuts. Why does the national media feel that every one out here is wrapped up in every minute detail of his last breath, word, foul dead and song?
We all know what he did, his petulance for fame, self-absorption, young children and hype.
Love him or hate him, ignore him or burn him in effigy, tough...he's gone. Over. Get a life. Buy the records, and play them if you must, get his face off television, stop the worship on TV, and get back to the things we really need to be concerned with.
In other words, get a life. There are so many other things to do except watch this stuff. At the very least, go feed some hungry children. Volunteer to help poor kids in school, help them read. Believe me most schools beg for adults to help them tutor kids who are miles behind in the reading and understanding.
Do something other than worship this guy. Do something else, anything else, just turn off the tube and play with your dog.
Oh, you don't know what else is going on in the world?
Iran just took a punch at us - we arrested a couple of clowns (US citizens naturalized who wanted to kill an ambassador living in DC) Iran has war ships now in the Atlantic, and now has fisionable material - make big boom.
Wake the hell up. Write your Congressman. Never mind, Congress has a lower approval rating than the president. (CNN)
Eric Holder (our erstwhile top law guy in DC) screwed up "Fast & Furious" and lost track, (?) of a couple of thousand guns that got into Mexico and killed a lot of folks. One of which is ours.
What's worse - it's getting worse, and he's hiding from Congress. (and us) And they are going to subpoena him for testimony. Uh-oh? Gungate?
Where is all that TRANSPARENCY that we were promised?
Remember, " We are going to put it all on the internet?"...I do.
Now, everybody is taking shots at us: Mexico, Iran, now Russian Prez Putin wants his old job back and get this, " I vant to put back together old Union Soviet Socialist Republics."
So, how come all the dark horse black hats in the world figure it's time to try and knock us off? Hmmm?
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