I am so glad to have lived long enough to watch " The Daily Show" and " The Colbert Report." Last night, 5 August, Colbert did a number on the "astro-turf mobs" that have been disrupting Democratic lawmakers town meetings in their home districts. In two minutes, Colbert uncovered their funding and logistics support from P.R. firms funded by the heathcare industry. It was a superb piece of journalism in the comedy mode...just gave me the giggles.
Stewart commented on to the non-news reports about the Girls from N. Korea and Bill's great adventure. Fox snuzz was all over Bill for going to N.K. and the government for not shooting his plane down before he weakened our country's resolve to fight terrorism....Stewart just pointed out that Reagan had done far more during the Iranian Crisis of the 1980's to trade guns for hostages and that he lied about that and a whole lot more. Without Fox, the writers on The Daily Show would have to be funny on their own...It appears that the right wing laugh fest will continue to role on and keep Daily Show writes fully employed into the foreseeable future...next week.
I was looking the other way and missed the latest shootings in Pa. I have to lay the blame on Match.com and the insaneidea that we are all entitled to be happy and in love and have an arsenal in case we are not happy and in love. Of course, this guy was not able to get a date: he was a computer geek, obsessed about his looks and worked for a law firm. Hmmm, that describes about a hundred thousand other losers out there....sorry, I meant to say, fine Americans who love their women and guns too much.
Now, we will get the feminists going on about all women hating men as being potentially gun crazed lunatics. Rather than realizing that hating women has been at the core of our religious and cultural traditions for hundreds of years...ie,most of our major religious groups have at one time or another supported the subordination of women, there has been systemic discrimination in wages and benefits for women and denial for them of protection against abuse. So, one nut job is a tragedy for the families involved, a nation with systemic abuse that killed and continues to kill hundreds and thousands through neglect and lawlessness is just business as usual.
Have a Nice Day
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oh well, to balance the crazed murderer in pennsylvania, there's the four women in wisconsin. they were the wife & girlfriends of the same man: they took their revenge by capturing him, tying him up, and gluing his you-know-what to his stomach. if you don't believe me, go google. -- but i guess this material is too tabloid for your blog.
ReplyDeletesigned, lmcd