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Time Magazine’s Person of the Year
Lou Dobbs has left CNN and I am adrift.
I can trace my affection for Lou Dobbs back to 2004. George W. Bush was my personal hobby and he was up for reelection. I was watching cable news obsessively, and Lou was the smart guy who came on after that douche bag Anderson Cooper.
Lou was a straight-talker who asked the obvious questions, that somehow no one else was asking, and he was funny. Old, white, and I suspect rather conservative, but funny.
Then Lou freaked out about illegal immigration. Not “immigration” NYT/MSNBC, illegal immigration. Even then, I found it amusing that Lou was able to relate all of the news of the day back to illegal immigration.
Lou has always maintained his integrity in the face of people who called him all kinds of names for maintaining such revolutionary things as our nation’s laws should be followed or that our leaders should represent the will of the people who elected them.
I will miss Lou Dobbs and am very curious to see where he’s going to end up.
And as for CNN… I think we’re done. Everyone else there annoys me.
Here are the top ten current events (I use the term loosely) I would rant about if I felt like it, in no particular order:
- Nationalized Health Care
- The lesser Kennedy as change agent
- Obama taking a page from the Bush playbook
- Al Frankin on the Senate Judiciary Committee
- The ‘new’ Newsweek format
- That idiot Croc-hater guy
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- While we’re on the subject… Megan Fox as hotter than Angelina Jolie (she’s not, and I don’t even like Angelina…)
All right, the top eight things I would rant about if I didn’t have to go stop my daughter from systematically dismantling the play room while her brother looks on. Sits up and looks on, I might add. What baby sits up before he rolls over? That’s what I’d like to know…
Man, will I ever be glad when all of this Michael Jackson crap is over…
Apparently Lou Dobbs can now be followed on Twitter.
I expect that sort of thing from douche bags like Wolf Blitzer or ACDB (yes, that’s redundant), but not Lou.
CNN must have made him do it. I think all the requisite Michael Jackson death coverage made Lou use some vacation time this week as well.
I just can’t imagine Lou a) wanting to be on Twitter or 2) wanting to talk about Michael Jackson’s death for days on end.
I don’t want to watch the news anymore.
Maybe I won’t.
First Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett, and now Michael Jackson.
I’m not sure why the news of Michael Jackson’s death makes me so sad… maybe it’s because CNN’s coverage of the event is atrocious. Maybe it’s because Thriller was the first album I ever owned, and man, we played the shit out of it.
Michael Jackson was just so cool. The jackets, the gloves, the moonwalk… And he remained cool, even when we found out what a freak show he was. Probably because in the burgeoning days of MTV (when it actually played videos…) the Thriller video was the coolest thing any of us had ever seen.
It’s like a piece of my childhood had died, and I’m sad.
So it’s time to renew the registration on the Versa… I opened the little envelope from the DMV and found that the fee is three times what it was last year.
Nice.
We planned a little mini-break to Laguna Beach for July… I opened the confirmation email for our room and found that not only would we be charged an additional thirty dollars a day for the privilege of parking our car at the hotel where we were already paying an exorbitant amount of money for a weekend stay, but, there would also be a 12.8% luxury tax levied against the price of our room.
Again, nice.
Oh, and, I also received a memo from our Superintendent of Schools detailing how the Governator’s proposed budget will include an additional twelve million dollars in cuts for the 2009-2010 school year in our district. Meaning more lay-offs, pay scale step and year freezes, possible furloughs (shout out to my Iowa peeps!), and cuts in support programs for students; on top of the hit to our benefits package that we already agreed to take in the name of team work.
One more time, nice.
I’m not worried, exactly, more annoyed than anything else. If we ran our personal finances the way the great state of California runs its, we’d be living in a cardboard box.
We’d deserve to be living in a cardboard box.
For moments like these:
Wolf Blitzer:
How worried are you, this is a blunt question, but there is a history in Pakistan, of a coup d’éta, a military coup, taking over, removing you, as the President of Pakistan?
(Dramatic, CNN camera work… Close-up of President Ali Zardari…)
President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan:
I don’t think that there’s any such chance at the moment. Whenever we’ve had a coup d’éta, whenever we’ve had a dictator, he’s always been supported by you. You being the United States.
Classic.
“Well, I personally would like to see us get away from you have to be a judge to be a Supreme Court justice. I think it would be good; we could get a governor, we could get a senator, a former senator, some people with some real life experiences for a while rather than people who walk around in these black robes all the time.”
-Harry Reid on the Today Show, 5 May 2009
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, why the fuck is Harry Reid the Senate Majority Leader? Let’s “…get away from you have to be a judge to be a Supreme Court Justice…”? So what? So the Supreme Court can be as inept as Congress?
And judges don’t have “…real life experiences…”? Or better yet, “walk around in …black robes all the time”?
Idiot.
So Harry Reid thinks it more important that Obama appoint someone with “real life experiences” to the highest court in the land than someone who was, oh, say, the most qualified candidate for the freaking job.
For my part, I would like to see the most qualified woman for the job appointed.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, women outnumbered men in every age group from age 25 and up. Shouldn’t women have more representation on the court? Or in the Senate for that matter?
The problem with our government is not diversity, it’s freaking men. Freaking men like Harry Reid.
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