The Sunday Morning Muse, June 14, 2009

It's Sunday morning, the sun is shining, the birds are chirping and in the distance I hear church bells. Another spring morning with a slight chill in the air before it warms up to the mid 70's. Perfect. Summer is coming soon, but there is something about spring that makes you want it to last just a bit longer before the heat and humidity take over and the air-conditioning unit comes back out of the garage.

Last evening some rain came through and then the sun came back out and there was the most brilliant rainbow I have ever seen making a huge arc of colors over my hometown. I wish I had my camera close by because it was just so pretty. I was looking out over the river valley and I could see it start on one wide of the steep hill... go over a bridge and then land right in the middle of a football stadium where there was a crowd of people.

Funny how people who are at a rainbow's end don't know it.

A Rant

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
-- Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

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I haven't ranted about anything in awhile, but today I'm really peeved. With all the real news of the world to report in a very short period of time during the evening news, to a seriously uneducated public, the second news story of the night...(right after the lead story which was about the Iranian elections), was that stupid nitwit Sarah Palin whining about David Letterman. Five minutes of this totally unnecessary and completely moronic exchange between a comedian and this dizzy broad.

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This...when gas prices are soaring again for no reason, our government is debating an overhaul of our health care system, we have two wars going on, North Korea is driving us nuts, and there are countless other REAL stories that deserve time and attention, and the public is spoonfed this nonsense.

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Why not lead the news with that idiotic beauty queen that Donald Trump fired? That would make as much sense. (No fear, she'll end up on Fox News as an anchor. She's blonde and looks nice in a dress with her fake boobs. That is all the qualifications needed there. Oh...and she is anti-gay. Perfect.)

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Only in America would the third story on the newscast be just as silly. George Bush, the 85 year old former President, skydiving. (To be fair, it is a good story...but it should be at the END of the newscast as a feature.)

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Back to the the Faux Outrage over David Letterman. GET OVER IT you dizzy broad. It was a JOKE. He is not advocating sex with children. What is worse, in my opinion, is your complete overreaction and eagerness to use this situation to grab the spotlight in anyway you can and blow it all out of proportion just to force your way back into the media. It makes you look desperate. If your kids are off base to jokes, get them off the cover of People Magazine, take Bristol off the talk shows, leave the baby at home, buy Bristol some condoms and go back to Wasilla.

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The Village called. Their idiot is missing.

Thinking of John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people....
Living for today.

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Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace...

The Sunday Morning Muse, June 7, 2009

Musing about a lot of things this week. David Carradine in a closet hanging by a rope in Thailand. Dead. Suicide? Accidental death? Homicide? His body is on it's way back to the States last I heard, and a forensic pathologist will attempt to find answers to the mystery surrounding his death.

A lot can be learned nowadays from scientific evidence. You see it dramatized so often on TV Crime shows, that it seems almost commonplace. The last moments of someone's life no longer left to speculation, but pieced together with tiny shreds of evidence, and blobs of DNA that tell their story to those who know how to investigate them.

I remember my dad watching Kung Fu on TV in the early 70's. I was just a kid, and I don't remember too much, but I do remember that the show was just so different from the Sitcoms and other dramas that were on at the time. They were...lessons.

Yeah, I know that actors play parts. He wasn't Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin Monk. David Carradine, according to Wikipedia, had "Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee ancestry."
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But to me he'll always be Kung Fu.
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Wikipedia

Part of the appeal of the series was undoubtedly the emphasis laid, via the flashbacks, on the mental and spiritual power that Caine had gained from his rigorous training. In these flashbacks, Master Po calls his young student "Grasshopper" in reference to a scene in the pilot episode:

Master Po: Close your eyes. What do you hear?
Young Caine: I hear the water, I hear the birds.
Po: Do you hear your own heartbeat?
Caine: No.
Po: Do you hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?
Caine: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?
Po: Young man, how is it that you do not?

Better Bowers Explains Marriage

I can't really add anything to this.

Skinny Bones

Pushkin Said. . .

"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten-thousand truths.”
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Aleksandr Pushkin, born on June 6, 1799, died Feb 10, 1837

Hurdy Gurdy Man

Expensive Vacations

Bush's 77 vacation trips to Crawford? $226,072 per trip.

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Written in response to right wingnuts criticizing President Obama for a date night in New York with his wife. It is sad what extremes they to go to criticize this man, and overlook the failed 8 years of policies that have brought us all to this point.

I don't even know why I let it bother me. The fanatics on the right are becoming irrelevant so quickly. Still, it's like trying to silence a barking dog. A fruitless task, but the noise gets to you.

Remembering Murphy Brown's Controversy

Reading the Entertainment listings for TV shows in production for the coming season I couldn't help but cringe at some of the lame ideas out there. How about this one? 16 & Pregnant. I'll pass on that one. Let's exploit children and call it entertainment.

Remember the Dan Quayle-Murphy Brown flare up back in the early 1990's? TV was pretty tame back then. Seems almost stupid now that this got so much attention:

Wikipedia

In the show's 1991–1992 season, Murphy became pregnant, but chose not to marry her baby's father. This story line made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign. On May 19, 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech, he criticized the Murphy Brown character for ignoring the importance of fathers and birthing a child alone.