A Question Not Answered

The links below are required reading. Enjoy!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/network.asp
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/a-question-not-ignored/

I love fact check dot org...

It is amazing to me how many people don't pay attention to what is going on in a television interview. The fact that this kind of crap, the chain letter, is used to rile up people who watched the same program we all did and should know better, is testament to the sad state of the average American's attention span and intelligence. You would think that with as many people pay homage to the idiot box for hours each day they would be a little more attentive and know what is said on their lord and master, TeeeeeeVeeeeee. There's is a school of thought that one needs to practice something for 10,000 hours to be a master or expert at it. By my estimation we live an a sea of masters of the T.V. Act like experts America. ( I'm now engaged in a disappointed head shake.)

This all can be summed up with to old adage, 'Don't believe everything you read.' Especially when you read it on the internet in the form of a chain letter. Since when did people start taking chain letters seriously anyway?

I am exasperated...

Beaten With A Peace Sign

Fall is here, the air is starting to get crisp and the leaves are falling. With more of the day spent in darkness it's the perfect time of the year for mischief and today I was fortunate enough to find some.

Today I was in need of some push pins so I decide to walk a few blocks to the office supply store and pick some up. On the way I happened a cross a gaggle of hippies with anti-war signs. Their most aggressive signs where speaking out against the war in Afghanistan. I'm no war monger or right wing religious anti-Muslim fanatic and on some levels I sympathize with there cause. But they where so damn into themselves I couldn't let the opportunity to fuck with them slip by. So as I walked past them to the supply store I made a plan.

On the way back home from I stopped to mingle and get into position for the fun I was to have. I said a few casual hellos, pumped my hand and yelled "End the war man" and identified the leader of the group. As soon as the arch-hippie was picked out I sauntered up to him to engage.

"Hey man. I know how we can end all the wars over seas, Man!" I say.

He looks puzzled but answers anyway. "What's your thought brother?" He says.

Now the trap is sprung time to blow his mind and I proceed to share my thoughts.

I reply. "Ya ever here of Dresden man?"

Immediately I went from being in the presence of peaceful hippies to an angry peace sign wielding mob. All manner of insults are hurled my way. Baby killer, fascist, monster, thug just to name a few. To top it all off I was in fact struck with a sign promoting peace. I think there's more than a little irony in that.

Not to worry though, while they where rather angry, having been vegans for so many years I'm sure there bones where to brittle for real combat and I was able to escape laughing hysterically.

What did I say? Trust me this isn't over. Rush, the master of hyperbolic bullshit that he is, will turn this issue into a carnival side show of an event in no time. My heart goes out to those who inflict themselves with his rhetoric everyday. I wonder, Rush listeners, what's it like to listen to an entire Limbaugh show? Are you conscious for the whole thing? Or do you eyes roll back into your head as you go into convulsion and foam at the mouth while you speak in tongues about politics? Read on...

ST. LOUIS -- Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh blames others for being dropped from the group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.

On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blueschairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid. He also said Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the NFL.

"I said to him at this meeting, 'Are you aware of the firestorm?' He said 'We wouldn't have approached you if we hadn't taken care of that," Limbaugh said.

AP Photo/Photo courtesy of Rush LimbaughRush Limbaugh is blaming the players union in part for his being dropped from a potential Rams ownership group.

Limbaugh added that Checketts had told him his involvement had been cleared at the "highest levels of the NFL."

Despite getting sacked, Limbaugh said he still loved the NFL and would probably be "the biggest non-paid promoter of the sport."

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell andIndianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay both expressed misgivings this week about Limbaugh's involvement. On Wednesday, Checketts said Limbaugh had been dropped from the bid.

During a 15-minute counterattack at the start of his show, Limbaugh said he believes he's been made an example by a players' union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. And he believed what happened to him was an illustration of "Obama's America on full display."

Racially insensitive remarks from the past brought down Limbaugh, who in 2003 was forced to resign from ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" broadcast after saying of the Eagles'Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

According to transcripts posted on his Web site, in 2007 Limbaugh said: "The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."

Limbaugh blamed DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFLPA, whom he called an "Obama-ite," and the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, whom he referred to as "race hustlers," for Checketts' decision a day earlier to drop him. He said his sacking was an example of the political clout wielded by the Obama administration.

"What is happening to the National Football League, what is about to happen to it, has already happened to Wall Street, has already happened to the automobile business," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said he was victimized in the media by "misreporting, lying, repeating the lies while also saying 'Limbaugh denies,' repeating the made-up quotes, the blind hatred."

"Believe me, the hatred that exists in this is found in the sportswriter community, it's found in the news business, it's found in the race hustler business," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said Checketts telephoned on Tuesday, asking him to withdraw from the group. Limbaugh responded that he wouldn't withdraw and that Checketts would have to "go public and fire me," and thought the news would be made public Thursday morning.

Smith, the NFLPA head, last week voiced his objections to Limbaugh's bid with NFL commissioner, and urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid. Sharpton and Jackson also attacked Limbaugh's involvement, asserting that Limbaugh's track record on race should exclude him.

Limbaugh said the real reason he's out is the NFLPA's attempt to influence negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement. He said Smith warned he would bring the White House into negotiations if necessary.

"It's designed to intimidate the owners, frighten the owners, and say 'We're running this league now, gang, not you," Limbaugh said. "This little warning shot fired across the bow to the owners, to say 'Get ready, here we come for the next collective bargaining agreement,' so we'll see how it all unfolds."

Limbaugh said he's "lost nothing" over the episode and vowed to continue being the "biggest non-paid promoter of the sport."

"On the other hand, our country has lost a great deal. A lot more than most people realize at the moment," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said the Checketts group had previously lost its lead owner, which must have at least 30 percent equity. He speculated that the lead investor had been global financier George Soros.

Limbaugh said Checketts and Soros were previously partners in a bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers and added Soros was "known politically for his left-wing slants."

"His politics fits in perfectly with what the National Football League is becoming," Limbaugh said.

The Checketts group is among a reported half-dozen bidders for the Rams, and would keep the team in St. Louis. The children of the late Georgia Frontiere, who inherited the team upon her death in January 2008, announced in June that they had hired the investment firm Goldman Sachs to review assets of the estate including the football team.

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

The Gladiators are butting heads with a rich Pseudo politician throwing the weight of his gold around in the world of business to make a political statement. Brilliant PR tactic, Julius would be proud. This will surely be fodder for his radio show for the next several weeks. The NFL won't be hurt by appealing, even if in a nuanced way, to all the lefties out there in T.V. Land. Maybe they'll give football a chance now that they realize how progressive the NFL owners are. In the end this turns out the most equitable situation for all parties. Read on....

Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.

Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.

Three-quarters of the league's 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh's potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.

Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.

Exactly when Limbaugh will be dropped is uncertain, though some familiar with the situation said it could be within the next week. It is unclear if the two sides even have spoken.

Earlier Wednesday, on his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh was defiant, holding on to hope that he still could be part of the ownership group that buys the Rams.

"I'm not even thinking of exiting," Limbaugh said on his program, according to a transcript provided to ESPN. "I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do."

Without Limbaugh, Checketts and his group would have to find a financial substitute to replace the sizable investment that Limbaugh intended to make. At the NFL owners meetings this week in Boston, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed Limbaugh's potential involvement in the league and said "divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about."

Goodell added: "I've said many times before, we're all held to a high standard here. I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL -- absolutely not."

In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown after saying of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

Information from The Associated Press is included in this report

TeeeeVeeeeeeeeee.

Glen Beck is a massive tool. Some one should abduct, Rush, Ed from MSNBC, Neal Bortz, Rachael Maddow and any other "political" annalists we can get a hold off. Then drop them in a caldera of a long dormant volcano with a box of rusty silverware and let 'em fight it out. We'll need to have cameras there so all of us blood thirsty savages can witness the carnage as we cram greasy fist fulls of snacky treats betwixt our over weight jibs. Sorry Rachael, I like you the most and I hope you win. However, I'm fair and balanced so you and all your colleges must be thrown under the bus together.

Television and what Americans call entertainment becomes more depraved and boorish everyday. Those among us that claim to be leaders have allowed themselves to become a part of the fray too. Politics is just as nasty, disingenuous and sickening as the garbage entertainment that's mass produced and sandwiched in between boner pill adds for our enjoyment. Politicians shouting at the President, posturing and stacking lies to the celling in congress, massive muscle bound direct descendant of neanderthals smashing each other faces with fists in a cage, skinamax, daytime talk, "Real house wives of (pick a county). It's all there for you. Dive in and get a free frontal lobotomy courtesy of Dr. Television. Don't forget to buy all the shit they advertise. You need more useless consumers goods that will make life that much better. Can you say snuggie?

As bloody and inhumane as my idea may sound, that being to pit talking heads against one another in a battle royal scenario. I think it could actually help. Perhaps if all television viewers where forced to watch the gore, after the smoke had cleared and everyone had a chance to think about what they had just witnessed there would be a rush to regain our dignity, honor and civility as a nation. Or after the credits roll people would just ask each other if there's going to be a new episode of Glee next week now that this season of News Anchors of Death is over.

Don't get me wrong I'm not above this. I love the violence channel. But all things in moderation. Honestly, Brothers and Sisters turn of Fox or MSNBC or what ever it is your watching. Read a book and come up with some of your own opinions. Have a little faith in yourself. Public school didn't make you that dumb. Trust me...

Face Book makes my brain hurt

Face Book has given the faceless masses a voice that wines, boosts, exults, complains and chatters incessantly about the most mundane tripe the human mind can possibly create. I must say to all of those tragically hip face bookers that no one gives a shit about your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, husband, ankle biting offspring, what you had for dinner, your new black berry, the asshole you ran into in traffic on your way to work, or any of the other routine bullshit that every single person in the world experiences each and every day. None of these anecdotes are that interesting. I think as a sociological experiment I'll post updates on my bowel movements in my face book status. It's my opinion that that will be just as interesting as the regurgitation of creativity of others in the form of song lyrics and quotes from popular movies and dietary journals that dull eyed automatons scrawl on face book walls every day. Some people have no business expressing themselves, most of them have face book accounts.

I would just cancel my face book account and spare myself the torment but how would I tell my extended circle of friends how much I enjoy not having a face book account.

We are the Roman Empire

I've often said it and only half meant it, America is the new Roman Empire. I have come to believe that there is more to that than I ever imagined. The Democrats are the Plebes, the Republicans are the Patricians and the empire is in turmoil. We have no tangible enemy, just some bearded boogie men that terrorize us form time to time. The lack of the a real enemy or serious struggle is forcing us to turn on ourselves. Television, fast food and stupidity are eroding the national character and destroying the American dream .

Just some anecdotal facts before I unleash my conclusion. Fact, 67% of people 20 and over are obese, 44million are functionally illiterate, 80% of people polled last year said they had not read a book for entertainment, the average American watches 6 hours of T.V. a day. I hope these facts are shocking.

America's days of dominance are numbered and it won't be a bearded dialysis patient that lives in a cave, Obama's 'socialist' plans, illegal immigrant, swine flu or the Chinese that are the cause. Much like Rome, the Republic will be torn to shreds by fat, stupid, lazy, mush brained from to much T.V. American citizen's. I hope I'm wrong.