McCartney on the BP Oil Spill

Paul McCartney called the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a “disgrace” and “terrible.” At the top of the video he also said President Obama is a "great guy." But what interest me is the statement he made about BP. See the video.

When asked what he thinks of the Gulf oil spill he says. “It’s a disgrace. I think the fact that something like that could happen and the people who are to blame don’t have the ability to instantly cap it and clean it up, it’s something that’s got to be addressed.”

That is the key point about off shore drilling. If the oil companies can't cap a busted well, quickly, they shouldn't be drilling off shore. I am now opposed to off shore drilling because America can not trust the oil companies to drill safely, to follow the regulations in place. But now I add this to my reasons for opposing off shore drilling .

RememberThe Kiss

From the Associated Press, June 1, "Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, are separating after 40 years of marriage." See the video.

When I heard this on the news, the first thing I thought of was the long kiss shared by Al and Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention. Maybe, this is what they will be remembered for, as a couple, because the Associated Press news video of their separation starts with the "kiss." The kiss that showed their love and affection for each other? Or was it a show? A performance, staged to demonstrate that Al Gore wasn't 'Mister Plastic', but he was 'Al the Passionate', that he was passionate about his wife, and, more important to voters, passionate about the issues, and he was not what I thought at the time that he seemed to be, a manufactured man, just a senator's son, schooled to be a politician, who spent his early and adult years in training for the Senate and for the White House? Al Gore went on to received the most votes in the 2000 election, and was robbed of the White House by the a decision of a corrupt Supreme Court 5 to 4 majority, that stopped the recount in Florida.

The separation of Al Gore and his wife, as are matters between a man and his wife, is their personal business. The best to them both.

There Is Something Rotten In Jamaica

There is something rotten in Jamaica and it just isn't about drugs.

I had never heard of this guy, Christopher "Dudus" Coke, before I became aware of the news reports, which all say, that he is an alleged notorious drug kingpin, a criminal, who is wanted in the United States. I don't argue with the tag placed on him, that he is a criminal. Drug dealing is a nasty business with terrible human and social consequences. However, if a criminal he was, he is not just a criminal now. The government of Jamaica and its security forces, by their heavy-handed actions, carried out during raids to arrest him, have elevated Mr. Coke to the status of outlaw.

Drug dealing be damned! Why does it take so many lives and so much destruction to arrest one man? Mr. Coke at worse is a common criminal. There are many reports in the press that the security forces have crossed the line, carried out extra-judicial executions, that the Jamaican army has killed many unarmed young men. Some reports put the dead at nearly 80, other reports give a higher figure.

From all reports, the Outlaw Mr. Coke and his henchmen are not saints; far from sainthood, in fact, they are rascals. The security forces too are not being led by saints. Just a reading of the human rights abuses, one could fairly say, it seems that the devil has taken charge.of the government's operations to catch one man.

Back Stepping Into War?

From  Linktv  — " May 27, 2010  — (May 28, 2010). After the South Korean warship Cheonan sunk -- allegedly due to a North Korean torpedo -- the West was unanimous in its judgment of North Korea's guilt, and quick to spin different theories on the motive for the attack. But, some South Koreans aren't so sure, thinking the attack too neat a coincidence with the looming elections, and finding the evidence murky. The plot thickens" See the video.

What ever is going on with the Koreas, North and South, sane heads need to step up. Any conflict would involve the major players in the Korean War, the US, China, and North and South Korea. Any war would be a disaster for all involved. Folks need to take a breath of air. Bring in more heads. If this sub sinking was an accident, then that needs to be admitted. Crazy theories about crazy people who want to go down a crazy road to their destruction need to be thought out, and if found as faulty as they sound, should be tossed out.

Until the facts are sorted out, America should remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, remember Bush and Cheney's claim that there knew where the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) were in Iraq!

Dennis Hopper, R.I.P.

Dennis Hopper died today. He was 74. He is best being remember for his work in the film "Easy Rider." He directed and co- starred in the film with Peter Fonda

I saw "Easy Rider' when it came out in '69 I went with a group of friends. The friend who got us together to see the movie, became a professor, a student and writer of film criticism. He said at the time that this is an important film. He was right "Easy Rider' is an important film, about rebellion, about youth and freedom, a road picture about America from the eyes of the 1960's youth culture. The film put the counterculture on the screen. At its release, the film was in a way, a step toward realism, and a step forward, and away from only showing a fake or clean-up view of America, the America through the eyes of Debbie Reynolds and Doris Day. The movie also reintroduced Jack Nicholson to the movie going public.

Dennis Hopper, 1936-2010, R.I.P.

Palin Attempts To Intimidate Author

Why is Sarah Palin afraid of author Joe McGinniss? Author Joe McGinniss rented the house next door to the Palins. Author McGinnisss has been critical of the Palins and is writing a book on Sarah Palin.

Author McGinnisss told the reporters that Todd Palin visited the house and became “increasingly hostile.”

According to the Washington Post, Sarah Palin accused Mr. McGinniss of moving into the house to spy on her family. "Wonder what kind of material he'll gather while overlooking Piper's bedroom, my little garden, and the family's swimming hole?" she wrote on her Facebook page. And she posted  Mr. McGinnissin picture on Facebook.

Boy, does she have a nasty mind! And she is kind of vicious too. She called in her goon squad. On Glenn Beck's radio talk show, she said of Mr.  McGinniss, "He's an odd character, if you look at his history, and the things that he's written, and the things he's been engaged in." Beck called Mr. McGinniss. "creepy." Other Palin goons accused him of stalking Palin.  Another of Palin's goons right wing nut and radio host Mark Levin gave out Mr. McGinniss’s email address, which caused his in box to be flooded, effectively shutting down the account. Mr. McGinniss said, "By being here, I have learned things, and I've gotten an insight into her character, into her ability to incite hatred, that before I only knew about in the abstract."

The Palins' encounter with Mr. McGinniss is going to have a lot of legs. One of the lesson Mrs. Palin may learn is that it is not smart to try to intimidate reporters.

Palin: What is the lady hiding?

The Associated Press reports today, May 28, 2010, that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has erected a 14-foot-high fence at her Wasilla home, making good on a promise to prevent her new neighbor, a writer working on a book about her, from peering in. See the video.

Journalist and author Joe McGinniss, who is not known for writing flattering books about politicians, decided to write a book about Sarah Palin.

This story gets amusing. It seems, so the New York Daily New reported, that Palin's next door neighbor went out of her way to rent the house to the author, whom she knew from media reports is planning to do a book on Palin. The Palins had crossed the neighbor. The neighbor says the Palins owe her money for renovations that she did at their request, that they never paid her for, and, so she knew McGinniss was writing the book, so she found him, and offered him the house. McGinniss accepted the offer. He says he always try "to get as close to the subject of his book as possible."

Sarah Palin looked out her house and saw trouble.  She complained and tried to get McGinniss to move, and tried to get him moved. She claimed that he could be looking into her yard, and into the windows of her house, and could be peering in on her, and could overhear what goes on in her house. My opinion is that she doesn't want any one to take a serious look at her, to talk to her neighbors, to go through the gossip, and to get a clear picture of just what kind of person she is. What is the lady hiding?

Anyway, she had a fence built, so that now, from her house she can see a fence. Oh dear, now she can't look from her house and see Russia!

Brits Scrap National ID Cards

The Associate Press reported yesterday —" British Home Secretary Theresa May has confirmed the ID card scheme will be scrapped within 100 days.'. See Video.

I am an American who roots for the Labor Party in their contests with Britain's Conservative Party. I rooted for Gordon Brown in the the recent election. I remember the bad old days when the team of Margaret Thatcher ran things in the United Kingdom and Ronald Wilson Reagan was the president here. The pair of them were just awful. So I am please to see that the current coalition government led, by the Tories, have stuck a blow for civil liberties by planning to scrap their country's national id card. National ID cards are a police statist idea. To its shame the Labor Party introduced them in Britain, and there have been calls to introduce them here. Well, Britain will be tossing theirs into the rubbish, which is where the cards belong. The very idea of a national ID card belongs in the rubbish. Three Cheers for their trashing.

Tom Cruise, Screen Icon

Tom Cruise was presented with the Screen Icon Award of the National Movie Awards in London. See the video.

Tom Cruise is a movie star who is also a very good actor. He is one of the most under-rated actors in today's films. He has been a very good actor, for a very long time in a number of different film roles. He has not won an Oscar, though he has been nominated. The number of Oscars an actor wins is a popular measurement used to judge the ability of movie actors. The Oscar, the Academy Award, is an over rated tool. Great actors of the past, some nominated, some not, never won Oscars.

Tom Cruise suffers from the Cary Grant affliction. Cary Grant was a popular actor, a great actor, a movie star, and an icon, who never won an Oscar. Why because he was Cary Grant. He had good looks. He had no trouble getting a movie part. He had no real need for an Oscar, right?

Well, it seems that male movie idols rarely win Oscars, until they are old. The great Paul Newman had to wait until he was old to win an acting Oscar. Check out movie history and you will see that in only in very rare cases does the hot movie idol win. Robert Redford never won an acting Oscar. Richard Burton never won.an Oscar. Clark Gable won, that was a rare case. Jimmy Stewart won, but he wasn't a hot movie idol. He was the nice boy who was somebody's cousin.. When he was a young man, Jimmy Stewart played sort of odd and / or goofy characters. The stars with the box office heat, the ones who the ladies adored, had to settle for the box office and for the popularly voted popularity awards. Any acting and movie related award Tom Cruise receives is deserved.

The Teen Werewolves of San Antonio

The cliques of "The Breakfast Club" are obviously a little outdated, but I didn't realize that things had changed this much- now, there is a new kind of clique- Teen Werewolves. This is a full-moon, so you might want to watch out for any teen-agers you see with tails running around at night. The Teen Wolves are reportedly not dangerous and run in packs.

 

Via The Stranger.

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