TOM AND JERRY ARE BETTER

The Flintstones turned 50. Even if I was a fan of said cartoon, John Goodman, Rosie O'Donnell and that Baldwin pretty much ruined it for me. So here is- some Tom and Jerry with a fantastic soundtrack provided by Venetian Snares. Something interesting coming out of Canada AGAIN! The quality of little known by the mainstream artists from the Great White North (Winnipeg, Manitoba in this instance)is constantly amazing. Someone spent a long time with CN archive footage. I hope it's not copyright *cough* infringement posting this. It picks up around 00:50. Enjoy :)

BECK ON BECK

Beck (not the musician) is an idiot. Obama's children are 9 and 11. This is two days after he demanded people lay off the family of Ms Palin and stated that families shouldn't be brought into political discussions. Hypocritical idiot.











BECK THE MUSICIAN IS AWESOME!

WHERE ARE YOU?

It's been a very different time in my life. It will be discussed at some point. What I'd like to talk about though is what happened today in the financial world.

Riots in Greece. Greece is 1/5th the size of California. They didn't collect taxes, couldn't pay bills and are in a depression/bailout situation. Greece felt the bailout amount was not enough money, so the entire country went on strike.  In the entire world it's really not very significant. YET it triggers this. More bailouts needed for the E.U. *P.I.G.S.*  (click click) E.U. PIGS  and the stock market dumping. Where are all you people who argued that the market has no need for correction?

Proctor and Gamble fell flat on their face. 50% in 5 minutes is crazy for a huge stock to fall. It's  consumer products. NOT a volatile stock. It bounced back to 30% down. This was obviously a glitch, but the response  shows sentiment more than anything.

The bottom of the DOW today was at the level of September 2008.This shows how fast people are ready to jump ship and panic. I am happy to practice the fine art that I call "Cat Trading". Pouncing fast, fast, fast then OUT (kinda how I play poker as well)! A dip of this proportion has only happened 3 times in history.

What about the housing market? What about economic fundamentals? Employment numbers look great when you don't count the people that fell off the roster of unemployment benefits..

Don't EVEN blame this on Obama. This was in the works for years and years.The banks are going to be hit hard again.

Are we safe from inflation? Are we safe from a pending financial meltdown? How do you feel now? Are you even aware of what is going on outside of your house? This will effect and affect you.


These are things I'm thinking about today. I will address them in a new post soon.

CAN AMERICA AFFORD THIS?

VETERANS

I am old enough to remember the late 70's when the Vietnam Vets came home to little acclaim. After WWI, WWII and the Korean War the troops came home to ticker parades, fanfare, and gracious praise. This time something had changed. It seemed they were almost loathed. They seemed a burden on society. They had witnessed the same horrors of previous wars. Those returning men and women were heros! Why weren't they heralded the same?

Every year on Memorial Day the local Detroit television stations would scroll the names of those who were killed in the line of duty. Those who protected us from terrible wrong had their names drifting across the tv screen. The montage of taps and the scroll went on several minutes out of every fifteen. It lasted the entire day and night. The names went on and on, never repeating. I'd watch this with my Aunt Linda who was a hippie back in the day and knew a few of the local guys that had gone to war and perished. One of them was an ex boyfriend named Ed. I knew Ed. He was kind of a bum and went into the military rather than get a job. He looked a little like Meathead, Rob Reiner when he was young and thin, on All in the Family (a show most my friends weren't allowed to watch- too controversial). We watched all those names go by so we could see his name. She was so sad. She was also extremely angry. I was a very young child that didn't understand why . I also didn't understand why the soldiers came home to such a solemn, unwelcoming home. They saved us! They fought for our freedom! They were HEROS!!! Military was in many parts of our lives. My school had us get dogtags which we all wore around our necks like the troops. People wore camouflage clothing. Rather than a Ken doll for my Barbie, I had a G.I. Joe. He had a Velcro beard and looked really tough. War coverage was the first thing Walter Cronkite talked about every night until Watergate happened. That took over everyone's attention. The war and the soldiers were soon forgotten completely.

SO forgotten that when it was suggested we go to an unfounded war this time I was the only of my friends that had any resistance to the notion. EVERYONE was saying, "We have to take them down now! They are terrorists!" My pleas about the horror of war, killing of innocent and not so innocent people and the fact that Bush SR didn't do it because there was no viable exit plan were mocked. I still remembered just how many names scrolled by in my childhood living room. It seems nobody else of my generation did.

And now. I find myself very alone in America. I still don't believe this war is right. Initially I could support the troops, feeling that they were in the military following orders. Support, but not respect someone who wants to live their life with no right to think on their own, to be handed order after order and just do it without their own will. Dog tags are well named. They are like trained dogs. Now, however, I can't even support troops. The people that are there now are there by choice. How can people not know what a huge mistake this war is? Who named the U.S. "World Police"? There was no imminent danger. No more than there was from Pakistan, India, Korea and many places around the world. Who would CHOOSE to go there???

America can't even pick a side. One year it is support Iran against Iraq. Them vice versa- a few times. What gives with that?

So Veteran's day was Wednesday and I felt alone in a country of 300,000,000. I kept hearing "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood. I hate that song. If there is a God why would it bless the U.S.A. more or less than anywhere else? Most of the true heroes are dead from old age. The Vietnam and Iraq wars were/are pissing contests. No wonder my Aunt was so sad and angered. I feel exactly the same. I can't support unthinking murderers. Rather than saving America and spreading Democracy, which is barely held on to here, much less in a country that doesn't even want it-The country is celebrating robotic, brainwashed killers. Lovely.

I'm so sad for the innocent people involved in this. There is no holiday for those slaughtered by such horrid actions. Will we commemorate them?

A QUESTION

“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
~Nietzsche

How would you answer? I don't need to know.


You do.

HEENE MONTAGE

Todays news was engulfed with a weird spaceship looking balloon and the sensationalized idea that a young boy was trapped aboard this craft 5000 feet in the air. Of course, news reports failed to mention this family regularly contributes live news videos to national news outlets and appeared on the special 100th episode of my absolute favorite guilty pleasure... "Wife Swap".

(click-the episode is here)

Falcon Heene and his family were just on Larry King Live (Wolf Blitzer sitting in) -- where he suggested his family set up the entire "boy trapped in a flying balloon" story, saying "You guys said that we did this for the show."





Kids do the darndest things... like busting on their parents publicity trip LMAO Wolf really dropped the ball not hammering them on this one- hmm, or is this family under contract with CNN? Either way hilarious.

Added Oct 17

Balloon boy father called FAA,then 9 news before calling 911

Added Oct 18

HA! Now they are brought up on charges. Check THIS out! One of the better songs on You Tube

I think I love them

CANADA

The Kanye thing. He's been all over the media. National debt, healthcare reform- which is HUGE- as in throw away the entire old system and make a new one, 2 wars, wildfires, sky high unemployment, inflation about to hit and THIS is what is on television for a week. Oh, how we love to be diverted. Why do I care? Don't really. Someone asked what the deal was about Kanye West. Knew nothing about him and as I'm all about being informed[wonder if that came off as serious?], I've decided to share. This is my encapsulated version:

He writes and produces most of his own stuff. He was in some accident (probably someone gave him a smackdown for being a jerk -ok, probably not but I have desires and imagination.). His jaws were wired shut for 9 months. He started writing poetry. He was very close with his mother who died a year or so ago. He's VERY popular. Does VERY commercial music. One time he decided he was boycotting an awards show if he didn't win an award. Was in competition with 50cent over who could sell the most recordings with the same release date. Megalomaniac FOR SURE. Muhammad Ali's ego in it's heyday had nothing on Kanye. Totally sensationalized fame hound.

Kanye West vids:

Love Lockdown

Gold Digger featuring Jamie Fox

Stronger- live version with Daft Punk

EGO (with Beyonce-who is married to Jay-z)

RUN THIS TOWN with Jay-Z and Rhianna (whom Jay-Z was rumored to have had an affair with while "on break" and just before he and Beyonce got married.) I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z's business sense, but that is another blog. The brushing off motion of Jay-Z at 2.30 is famous- Obama did it at pre election. Sorry right wingers- I'm still not hating on him.

Obama "brushing the dirt off"

Kanye ruining Taylor Swifts moment. She is young. It's her first VMA award. He was in the audience at the VMA's and jumped on stage took the mic from her and well- the rest is in this video. Even his crocodile tears non apology on Jay Leno (who cuts zero slack). He had no reason to be on that stage and was promptly escorted out. Was very nice of Beyonce to call Taylor up during her own acceptance speech.Seems like a publicity stunt,though. He's getting a lot of press and Taylor Swift is getting even more. New albums were just released and the music industry is transformation into who knows what. He did apologize, but hmm- motives are a rough guess. Maybe I'm just too cynical. Maybe Kanye really is a jackass.

Obama responds like an actual human and says "he's a jackass"

Kanye on nationally televised fundraiser for victims of hurricane Katrina:

"Bush doesn't care about black people"

A good thing he does- That he can actually be admired for is his campaign against slavery with African diamond mining companies. This song contains a sample of the theme song for the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever as performed by Shirley Bassey. After gathering research on the plight of children in West African nations who since 1991 having been forced to mine conflict diamonds and die in civil wars financed by them.He still doesn't wear diamonds.Kanye West - Diamonds

BUT- I suggest you buy diamonds from CANADA, eh? They have some of the best diamond mines in the world. Not only quality but conflict free. What? Did you really think I'd close this post talking about him? Go learn something.

This is some interesting info on Canadian mines