December at the Obama White House. Hmph!
First off, yet again the Secret Service has failed out President’s safety by placing yet more uncleared/authorized people in his presence. Let’s call this one BreakfastGate! Just “go with the flow” one White House staffer was quoted as saying to tourists who were ushered in to a breakfast function with the Obamas, thinking they were there for a tour of the White House. Has Obama extinguished everyone on the Secret Service staff that knew how to do their jobs for partisan politics sake, or is the Secret Service intentionally trying to get him killed? I can’t decide. The man makes my skin crawl, but I don’t want him assassinated!
Now on to why the man makes my skin crawl. Rahm Emanuel has struck again with his Chicago-politics charm. Being categorized as a “serious leak”, news has spread that Emanuel sent a clear message to Nebraska’s Democratic Senator Nelson: vote for our bill, or we close Offutt AFB! Let’s call this one HealthGate! Sen. Nelson has been against his fellow democrats in passing the current healthcare bill for its shameful abortion funding. As Nelson stands for his principles and the wishes of his statesmen, Obama finds another political endeavor at risk, so how do we think this is going to go? The way of the man standing for integrity, or the way of the man who once promised “change” by eliminating D.C.’s political playbook now using it himself to get what he wants?
I feel sick. OMG White House. OMG.
At first, I was shocked that none of the gossip heads in the image-obsessed Tinseltown had gone after Alec Baldwin for his most recent cinema endeavor, It’s Complicated. And then I remembered: Tinseltown is also misogyny-obsessed, so Misogynist Not-So-Annonymous’ poster-boy is safe. What a pity.
The issue at hand: Alec Baldwin has been cast as the love interest/ex-husband of an actress almost 10 years older. When in Hollywood’s history has that ever happened…and with it not being a part of the story line? There is a huge difference between a 50-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman. George Clooney is almost 50. Would we believe George Clooney was madly in love with Meryl Streep? Or Helen Mirren? Or Susan Sarandon? Yes, I get that Susan has been in a 20+ year relationship with a man 10 years her junior Tim Robbins, but since her days of pulling off “30″ in Bull Durham, have we seen them CAST TOGETHER AS LOVE INTERESTS??! No.
Alec Baldwin in 1999 starring in the television mini-series "Nuremberg".
In this flick, with Meryl being 60, her ex-husband being 50, and his new wife being 20 years younger than him, does that make Meryl the new wife’s mother or grandmother? These thoughts would fly through my head throughout watching this film, which is why I’m going to see Sherlock Holmes Christmas Day.
Before your little female-empowerment heads go spinning off your necks, my problem is not with a younger man being cast as a love interest to an older woman. I’m still reeling over Gwenth Paltrow being cast against Michael Douglas in The Perfect Murder. It’s about time women get younger men slipped their way in films. My problem is with rage-aholic Alec Baldwin’s aging process. He should’ve been mortified that Hollywood could legitimately cast him opposite an older woman, and it be natural! This casting is not an homage to Meryl’s gorgeous looks. Afterall, her second love interest in the movie is Steve Martin, who coincidentally happens to be four years older than her. This casting is proving how old and run-down Alec Baldwin has become. The fact that a 51-year-old could run (or maybe shuffle) comfortably alongside a group of 60-somethings as his contemporaries should be a huge wake-up call to the graying Butterball.
Get it FemiNazi’s? Be thrilled we finally get to pick apart men the way women have been for decades in Hollywood. Alec, be careful…another 5 years of this, and you will be playing little bro Stephen’s father!
Left: Alec Baldwin in 1999 Right: Alec 10 years later as the star of "30 Rock"
Main stream media is getting another story wrong…shocker! CNN Headlines News’ weekend airing of Showbiz Tonight had a panel discussing the ultra inappropriateness of Tiger Woods’ mistress #1, Jaimee Grubbs, addressing the affair. The overall consensus? Leave Tiger alone during this super private matter…oh, and Ms. Grubbs is a whore.
First point: Mainstream media forgets we were all dumbfounded as to why Tiger Woods would’ve crashed his SUV in front of his house in the middle of the night, until the voice mail tape was released. If Ms. Grubbs had not come forward with the missing link, paparazzi and local news outlets would still be camped out in front of the police station trying to gain crash answers. One voice mail confirming a mistress, and suddenly a late-night crash, a golf club-wielding wife, and an embarrassed and non-communicative sports celebrity made perfect sense. So, by all means MSM, shoot the one that brought you the story!
Second point: As a woman who has been on the receiving end of single women being “okay” with carrying on an affair knowing my man was taken, and with a child, I get the anger that’s immediately thrashed upon the mistress. However, this all boils down to the age-old question: What came first? The strippers or the married men looking for strippers?
Call me crazy, but I didn’t blame Monica Lewinsky…I blamed our President. I didn’t blame the call girls…I blamed Spitzer. I detested every woman who I discovered had been involved with my ex, but I blamed my ex! And I don’t blame Jaimee Grubbs, I blame Tiger Woods.
Who took the eternal vows…Jaimee or Tiger? Who had off-spring…Jaimee or Tiger? Who had the international reputation and moral character to maintain…Jaimee or Tiger?
Keep men accountable, or men and women will lose in the end!
Third Point: Tiger Woods is a whore.
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Personally, I don’t think every tweet I’ve ever sent into the universe to be consumed for all of three minutes before vanishing was valuable enough to be cross-referenced by nine new Twitter pirating search engines.
What do I know?
Apparently, this menace is so important, I need many, many people policing every word I text to index them somewhere so my little lone name would have 9 million search results.
What happened to the days when if you wanted to find someone online, you’d google their name, and then the search results would show they have a twitter account, a Facebook account, a MySpace account, a classmates.com account, a mention or two in a local newspaper, etc. Not now. Every single word, on every single day you ever made an entry on any of your internet accounts has a search result. It’s internet overkill!
What is “topsy“, and why do they have my tweets? Why is a “tweet tree” necessary? “Explore Twitter”? Ask to follow my twitter account, and you can explore me all you want! That’s how it’s supposed to work, no?
And why is Google allowing these off-shoot searches to pop up within their massive search engine? Shouldn’t Google be offended they are being piggy-backed?
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I’d theorize an organization or two is attempting to overload the system to the degree that stream-lining the internet would be suggested…perhaps by a government agency…you know…to make web searches more manageable. It would work for the greater good, or so we’d all be told.
As nouns like Twitter and Google become verbs in our modern language, I wonder how long it will be before the term ‘privacy’ becomes obsolete?
And THIS is why I love Jim Norton so much!
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While reading the following article
I learned two things:
#1) Ann Coulter is never going to let go of the fact that Ogre boy graduated from the Aggie version of her Ivy League alma mater Cornell…as a communications major…while putting on airs that he too is from Ivy stock, (and God bless her for it!).
&
#2) The odds that a straight jacket is currently being fitted for Keith are high enough now that betting on it should pull anyone out of this recession.
“They’re coming to take YOU away, Ha ha, they’re coming to take you away, Hee-hee, ho-ho, ha-ha…to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time, and YOU’LL be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they’re coming to take YOU away ha ha…”
“The Most Awesomest Crash Ever” Award for 2009 goes to….
No, I’m not talking about Tiger Woods, although how cunning are the White House media czars for propping that story up as a cover?! I’m referring to Michaele Salahi and her husband Tareq for crashing the over-rated White House State Dinner this week. Somewhere Howard Stern is kicking himself for not thinking of it first. So is Vince Vaughn. What a great Wedding Crashers sequel that would’ve made. Vince is also kicking himself for choosing some Canadian real estate chick instead of my devotion, but that’s another story.
Michaele Salahi and Katie Couric get cozy at the White House State dinner. Thank you unscrupulous Facebook account holders!
Michaele, decked out in red carpet couture, is a former Washington Redskins cheerleader and is allegedly being considered for the D.C. version of The Real Housewives, and that alone was enough to pass through certain doors to meet face to face with the President…and Michelle…and Rahm Emanuel…and Joe Biden…
Hey, I’m a former Six Flags entertainer and I was considered for The Face of Fox 43 this year. I will be shopping the Ross racks for a deal on a high-end label and crashing a Rose Garden event some time soon. I have a few words to share with my President, by gosh!
I’m conflicted on this one. Yes, I’m a HUGE fan of MadMen. Yes, I’m a fan of children and education. Should they mix?
Sesame Street decided the best way to train children on how to identify and express their feelings is by doing a take on the extremely adult character Don Draper…a man who never seems to feel or express anything. I don’t see Freddy from Nightmare on Elm Street showing up to teach children on how not to be afraid of the dark….so….yeah. I don’t think so.
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If you’ve looked into any of them (Great Expectations, Together Dating, Perfect Match, Singles Station, The Right One….the list goes on and on), you know they all start off with …”We have over 35 years of matchmaking experience”. A couple of them have upgraded in the last two years to “40 years…”. It’s cute. And lie number one of a thousand. Each of these entities (although Perfect Match and Great Expectations would kick up a fuss for being thrown in the same boat as the Together Dating conglomerates), the truth is the original dating service with the same, lame “matching formula” started in the 1970’s, but it has had to change its name, faces, and locations a hundred times over to attempt to rip off new customers without a clue.
They are all attached, they all swap out employees who are most definitely ex-cons and current drug addicts (Case in point ~ this sales gentleman has been working in dating services from Texas to Utah since 1994. I don’t think he’s ever kicked the “crack” problem that causes him to tell the most sensational lies to clients to increase his commission to pay for it. How nice for dating services to take drug-addicted burglars and forgers off the streets and into offices with vulnerable singles!!) and they all sell the same filth: They are your best friend until they get that credit card zipped through their machine. Then you drop off the face of the earth, and when you reappear with threats of law suits, BBB complaints, or Office of the Attorney General’s investigations, their rebuttal is, “How stupid are you to have signed something you never read?”
I know…such matching making charm! It’s precious.
Here’s the tip of a continent-sized iceberg of complaints by both former employees and customers who have seen the light…and the credit card bill. If you can get past the poor grammar and spelling errors, they are a treasured read!
Adrian (former employee of Ted Law, owner of several Together Dating offices, i.e. The Right One, Lully’s Inc, Pacific High, Positive Innovations, Wichita Innovations…the list again goes on, and on… I can vouch for Mr. Law’s character from personal experience. It ain’t pretty!)
Adrian – Richardson, TX (Part 2!!)
MSNBC Consumer Report on not using Dating Services(Ted Law is mentioned. He sounds so sincere…I’m hurling!)
Jennifer – Dallas, TX (Perhaps this is the pot-head Adrian referred to? Nonetheless, she can write!)
Complaints.com Complaints Galore!
Consumeraffairs.com Consumers, indeed.
In Colorado, they’ll set you up…with MURDERERS!!!
In a nutshell, dating services are a big whopping scam. I’m just sayin’.
My son (2 years old) and me ~ Fort Worth, TX 2001
I don’t think anything relates our relationship to God as His children better than becoming a parent. This is not to say you’re incapable of understanding God if you don’t have children. It also doesn’t mean you have some secret fast track to God’s heart if you do…especially if you’re not that hot of a parent! Personally, I thought I had a wonderful relationship with the Lord. Then, I had a son. Bible lessons can be taught, scriptures can be memorized, and praise songs can be sung, but understanding the depth of love, compassion, and concern God has for every individual He places on earth doesn’t come in a better form than on-the-job training.
My son and I say “I love you”, or some form of it at least fifty million times a day. We have affectionate games, we have silly sayings, and we even compete with a challenging, “I love you more” every now and then. But the moment I tell him to brush his teeth before bed, and he throws ”in a minute!” over his shoulder while watching TV, all love and games halt! It’s not about his flippant attitude about gum and teeth health, or the possibility that he might allow TV to run his life every now and then. It’s about the nine hundred “I love you” ’s that were spoken until that moment, and now them feeling very empty. If he really loved me, if he really respected me, if he really thought the whole world of me, then why does he dismiss me the moment I give the simplest command?
Every time it happens, and the older he gets, the more it happens, I immediately check myself and think, “Okay, what has God asked me to do that I’ve casually said ‘in a minute’ to?” All my prayers and “I love you” ’s and praise songs throughout my day probably felt extremely empty to Him when He quietly requested something small of me also. I don’t stop loving my son in that moment, so I know God doesn’t stop loving me when I’m disobedient, but man does it make it difficult to give my son a blessing when I can’t trust him with such a little thing like brushing his teeth at the moment I tell him to.
The reason for my asking that he brush his teeth before bed is to grant him the benefit of healthy, solid eating tools that won’t cause pain or loss for years to come, not to mention training him for the day when he’ll know he needs to brush his teeth and will get up without being told to do it. It’s the same as God’s laws and commands benefiting us with a healthy spiritual, physical, and emotional walk on this earth, and regular obedience allows His laws to become second nature to us. But in this specific instance, an extra benefit was attached. The brand new special doo-dad toothbrush he admired in the store the other day was waiting on the bathroom counter as a surprise.
It now gets hidden in a drawer, while he continues to watch TV. I’ll save it for a morning or night when I think he’s in a better place to receive a blessing.
The thing is, when he was younger, I wouldn’t hold on to the blessing I had planned prior to his misbehavior or disobedience. My first strategy was to give it to him anyways to help him realize that when I give a command, or a rule, or make a request of him, I might have a great reason behind it that he isn’t expecting. However, as he gets older and seems prone to making the same mistake, I feel like it’s a lesson in trusting my commands he should have learned already. So, I don’t make a big deal about it. I don’t come out with a snotty, “Well, that’s too bad that your TV show is more important than seeing what was on our bathroom counter a minute ago,” which became my second strategy over time. This third (and final) strategy is he has no idea what he missed out on until the next time I ask him to do something and he chooses to obey. It hurts a little too, because I really do love him a million, times infinity, plus one. I want to shower him with gifts and special little things all the time! So, in a way, he’s robbed me of the joy of blessing him.
I wonder how many blessings God has sitting in a drawer waiting for me?
“Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgements, which I command you today, to observe, then it shall come to pass, because you listened to these judgements, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers. And he will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flock…” Deuteronomy 7: 11-13
So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.” I Sammuel 15: 22
