More Ramblings
OK, first off, to the nuts who suggested a contest for burning Pelosi and Harry Reid in effigy: This? This is not cool, guys. There's so many ways to say this is not appropriate, so I'll stick with one. For those who say (as some do) that the Bible tells us to chastise those who have fallen from God: I'm pretty sure I know the passage you are talking about. And it does not in any way encourage real (OR MOCK) violence. So no, not cool. Stop it. You are making Christians look stupid.
And speaking of stupid, what's with the boot licking from the newish NEA head ? You know, where he spewed the elitist bullshit that, among other things, it was shocking! shocking! to find that there are artists in Oklahoma and the fantasy that: This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.
I don't know what's worse: that he engaged in the most blatant boot licking I've seen in a long time, or that he is such a moron when it comes to history, especially knowledge of his own country. I mean, there's three completely ignorant statements in that quoted excerpt, and his entire posting is rife with them. Is that the best artists can do? Come on, guys. I know plenty of smart, competent artists out there. Why do you put up with this being your public face to the country?
Then we have Alan Grayson. Well, what can you say about this guy? He's obviously got a few screws loose. But what struck me was that not only does he have all the ego and cluelessness of a first-term Congressman, he's apparently incompetent in hiring staff. See, what really makes a politician successful is that they hire smart, tactful people to follow around and clean up after them, as well as taking care of constituents. But this guy? Check out how his spokesman (no, not a random staffer----his spokesman) defended Grayson's calling a woman a K Street Whore: She had the audacity to attack a Congressman who used to be an economist. After all, OH MY GOD, HOW DARE SHE NOT SUCK UP TO EVERY DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS??????? Does anyone else see the irony that she was accused of sucking people because she had the audacity NOT to do it to Grayson? ;-)