Well…with the murder in Ferguson and the many others across this country where unarmed black men are killed by the police, I found this latest video that I saw a few days back just sick….a drunk, old, white guy is pointing his AR-15 at the cops and can you guess what happened? Well…he certainly didn’t get shot, that’s for sure…you hear the cops saying to the guy “…sir, could you please put the gun down..” and ‘why are you mad at us?” After many other “sirs” and “please”…the guy puts the gun down and the cops arrest him….but the charges were dropped the next week since he said he was sorry….I kid you not…a black kid with his hands up gets killed…a black kid with his hands cuffed behind his back “shoots himself” in the chest…but this white guy is treated like a king and even given his gun back after pointing it at the cops and threatening to kill them….this crap is just sick…and, it IS racist….no other way to say it…geez…
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RIP Robin Williams
Well…woke up to the sad news this morning that Robin Williams has died from an apparent suicide….I remember the first time I saw him on Happy Days and how he just cracked me up…which continued throughout his career…..from what I understand, he fought the black of depression his entire life as I have…..what a shame….Rest In Peace, Robin….
Some thoughts….
Well…politics are looking like they are going to get going again in a little while but this one is not about politics…it is just thoughts…saw a great special honoring Neil Young last night where they had assorted artists come on to do his songs…one of the best was Ben Harper…yeah, I don’t know who he is either, with three backup singers doing “Ohio”….wonderful voice and he got what the song was about..it seems that a bunch of them didn’t get the meaning of the rest of the songs and interpreted them strangely…one of the weirdest was Josh Groban doing “Harvest moon” where he overpowered that quiet little love song….no nuance to it at all…you didn’t feel the song like you do when Neil sings it….but, it was a nice diversion in a boring night…and one cool part was the CSN came on to do a song for Neil, too…pretty neat…in fact, I’m watching them right now on AXS tv….
RIP James Garner…
Well….saw in the news that James Garner died over the weekend and that makes today a little sad…since I can remember, he was in the world that I inhabited…not in the same circles obviously, but in movies and tv….and “The Rockford files” was one of my favorite shows of all time..for so many years…Friday nights at 9 o’clock was time for Rockford….and it is funny and something that I always say is that you can be successful and a nice guy…and he was both…RIP…
And the rich wonder why people hate them…
Well…just a short one on an article that I read in one of the papers this morning about how airlines are starting to put more space between first class passengers and the rest of the unwashed masses since surveys of these rich people made staying far away from normal passengers their top priority…it isn’t bad enough that first class passengers are first on and first off the plane, now they just never want to even see anyone who can’t afford to fly first class. To add insult to injury, Delta is changing their frequent flier program to award rewards based not on the miles you fly but on the COST of your ticket, essentially eliminating any reward for anyone but first class passengers. Just like their gated communities, skyboxes, and having servants so they don’t have to mix with us poor folks…every day the rich do everything they can to make sure the rest of us know our place in the world…and it isn’t in first class…geez…
Need to meander a little…
Well…I was trying to come up with a political topic for the day and have had no luck so I’m just going to meander a while and see what happens…so, this one will be filed in misc…I am exhausted today and I can’t figure out why….possibly because I was up all night or I haven’t eaten enough…take your pick….how about some sports? Manchester United looked so bad yesterday that, even with now getting the channel that they are on, I don’t think I’ll be watching anymore this season…they just look so bad….one bright spot…not with Man U….is that the Wings looked okay last night but should have taken the game in regulation but gave up the tying goal in the last 30 seconds…but, they did finally win one in OT so it will be interesting to see how they do tonight….another good thing is that, if they don’t remember to shut off NBCSN, I will get formula 1 this spring…and that will be a good thing….what else? I think I’m going to fracture if I have to go out in any more of this crap cold weather…it’s gotten to a high of 7 today and is going to get to 7 below tonight…and it is almost frickin March…supposed to be near 50 by now and melting my trails so I can get back on the bike….damn winter….
Walmart still sucks..
Well…one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning…remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to ‘revive” American manufacturing….and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad…the audacity of a company who has spent the past 40 years destroying American manufacturing by their relentless push to cut costs by selling billions and billions of dollars of cheap Chinese crap…all the while paying their employees so little that most of them qualify for food stamps and other aid that has we taxpayers giving Walmart almost a million dollars a store in subsidies. It reminds me of the old, old joke that has a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court by saying he has an excuse, he is an orphan….that is just what this whole campaign smells like…hollow out the economy with your strategic plans, then make a big deal that you might go back and fix some of the damage that you caused…what a sorry excuse for a company, and a sorry excuse for Americans these Waltons are…geez…
Some of the rich truly are evil….
Well…I have been amazed lately about the tone deaf response that has come from many of the rich in this country when they are criticized for any reason…they truly feel that they are the aggrieved party when people suggest that they share their wealth with the people that made it possible…and this week, we had a guy who truly is one of the worst people in the world comparing the OWS movement that is trying to address income inequality to the nazis and their treatment of the Jews…nope, not making this up. This idiot, Tom Perkins, then just couldn’t shut up and gave another interview where he is proud of his rolex watches and he must be okay because he has relatives that live in trailers…all while he spends 130 million on a new sailboat. But this is not the worst part of the interview…this idiot goes on to complain that he once had to pay a $10,000 fine after being convicted in a french court of running over a small sailboat with his huge one and killing a doctor that was on the other boat. He goes on to bitch that they tried him in French and he got railroaded…and he probably truly feels that way since the rich in the US can basically do anything they want and get away with it…how dare they hold him responsible? I am so tired of hearing from these worthless pieces of crap who think they should be treated like royalty and the rest of us should bow to them since they cheated and stole their way to wealth…geez…
Four down for the month…
Well…as you can see, I’m four down for the month and am running out of days to catch up so there is going to have to be some cheating to make the goal…so, let’s get started….the Wings are just disappointing me with the late game collapses that they have been doing all season…probably won’t make the playoffs for the first time since I was much, much younger…not getting excited about the super bowl…might watch some of it for the ads but it will be home here and not out…need to be able to flick through channels and can’t do that if I’m watching with anyone…even Man U is stinking up the place this year and maybe it is good that I haven’t been able to watch them this year…would just be angry all the time with the lack of effort…and why wouldn’t you put in effort if they are paying you millions every year? I wonder if they don’t have any pride…I’m sure I’d leave it all on the field if they were paying me all that cash….hmmmm…okay, need to go start lunch but I do have another one for early aft about religion and how it is being used as a weapon even against middle schoolers…
Oddities….
Well…have been trying to recover today but I think I can’t recover from this bug until it gets really, really worse..it looks like that’s the path I’m on for the weekend so that is a bunch of crap…there have been some odd things going on…at least odd to me…have been getting Neil Young’s twitter feed lately and he is really going after the tar sands crap that is fouling large swaths of Canada…I know he is from there and I shouldn’t be surprised that he is socially responsible…but it is nice to see that even at this late date, he is still trying to make a difference….and it has been such a good weekend for those of us who think Chris Christie is a lying bully…the latest is that his thug aides withheld Sandy aid to Hoboken just because the mayor there wouldn’t give contracts to one of Christie’s cronies….and this time, the mayor has evidence of it all…I can smell indictment all over this last bit of news….and it couldn’t happen to a bigger thug…as I said in an earlier post..”bye, bye, Christie”….should do one more for this one but I can’t think of another right now…so, I think I’ll make the next idea the catch up post for the weekend…