Palin Strategy to Upstage Michael Jackson?

Michael Jackson dies and knocks the Iranian "Revolution" off page one and TV lead-ins.

Sarah Palin is trying to upstage Michael Jackson by resigning?

The entire text of her speech of "resignation" maybe found at the site below. For the student of history and personality cults it is well worth a careful read.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/07/full-text-of-palins-resignation-speech.php

In it she says that all four of her children for for her stepping down. I guess that means the baby did too.

She says she is doing it for Alaska, Most Alaskans will probably agree with her though not exactly.

Then there is the weird bit about: "... I think much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently.) Um, by the way, sure wish folks could ever, ever understand that we ALL could learn so much from someone like Trig - I know he needs me, but I need him even more... what a child can offer to set priorities RIGHT - that time is precious... the world needs more "Trigs", not fewer.

I wondered about that and what it ment so I googled Trig-Palin-mocked and got these two photos.

It seems this iconic picture was photo-shopped into the picture below,

It took me some time to find out how this mocked Trig in that clearly someone else's face has been placed over his.

The explanations is found at Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/25/palin-attacks-blogger-for_n_220668.html

The level of insanity of all of this makes me wonder at the state of our National mind.

But it all came together when I read this part of her speech.

"Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naïve if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN. And I'm doing that - keeping our eye on the ball that represents sound priorities - smaller government, energy independence, national security, freedom! And I know when it's time to pass the ball - for victory."

It became crystal clear then, she is upstaging

Michael Jackson!

I Know The Identity of the Lost TV Show Plot

Ever since the first season I recognized the plot background of "Lost" the TV series.

It ain't that hard kiddoes.

The Island is an insane asylum that houses one or more patients with multiple interacting personalities trying to resolve themselves into the controlling dominant personality of the patient(s).

See the movie "Identity" for a similar plot.

http://www.themoviespoiler.com/Spoilers/identity.html

What To Read Now, And Why,.....Say What?

Got my new Newsweek today and turned directly to the article : WHAT TO READ NOW: AND WHY!.

Read it here:http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300

I was chagrined to find that of the 50 books "I should of read" I had read exact 1/3 of one. They were counting Twain's three Mississippi books as one. I had read Huck..Finn.

But I had seen three as movies: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Frankenstein , and The Bear.

I've always thought of myself as a reader, but geez many of these essential books for these times I had never heard of much less read.

There are three books on my table next to the chair I read in. They are The Spear of Destiny, The Gnostic Paul, and Henry Stanley's book about seeking Livingston (although that one is in German which i do not understand, but that's another story). But still this Issue of Newsweek is making me feel well out of it.

So dear blog "readers" which of the books on the magic list have you read?

Where Is Wyatt Earp When You Need Him?

Ariz. Senate approves bill allowing guns in bars

Wyatt's Carefree Days Maybe Over

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.

The 19-8 vote completes legislative action on the bill and sends it to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. She has not said whether she will sign it, but she has long been a supporter of gun rights.

The measure has pitted powerful groups representing gun and bar owners against each other, sparking a debate about whether guns and alcohol can coexist without bloodshed.

Critics of the measure say guns and alcohol are a dangerous combination.

"We don't let people drink and drive, why should we let them drink and carry guns?" said Sen. Paula Aboud, D-Tucson, who voted against the bill.

Source: USATODAY.com

Wyatt Cleans Up Tombstone For A Second Time

It won't be long until we will have to add Cell Phones to the First Amendment or we will have more gun rights than phone rights.

My mama always told me never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today.

---Doc Holiday

Two New Words

Visiting the Cajun Riviera in Southwestern Louisiana a few weeks ago I learned two new words. First let me say I love trash. Good trash that is. Beach-combing is one of my favorite ways to collect stuff. Along the beaches here in SW Louisiana there is a lot of stuff, new, old , and fossilized.

But the two new words I learned had to do with where the trash was and how it got there.

"... debris moved by waves is commonly stranded along the wrack line of estuaries. The location of the wrack line is a function of the swash uprush ..."

The two new words are: wrack and swash

Wrack: Something driven by the sea.

Swash: (uprush and backwash), in geography, is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

FDR's Second Bill Of Rights

"The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by federal judges. Roosevelt's stated justification was that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness." Roosevelt's remedy was to create an "economic bill of rights" which would guarantee:

• A job with a living wage
• Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
• Homeownership
• Medical care
• Education
• Recreation

Roosevelt stated that having these rights would guarantee American security, and that America's place in the world depended upon how far these and similar rights had been carried into practice."

source: Wikipedia

It is 65 years latter. Isn't about time to do this?

The Republicans say NO! They have been saying "NO" or "Not Yet" since 1953. 55 years of NO! If you believe them, all of these "rights" are un-American. Let us lift up the nearest rock and let them crawl back under it. Then let's undo this mess they have built for us, and that we let them build.

Barack Obama, let us obtain these rights:

"We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. “Necessitous men are not free men.” People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won (WWII) we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being."

---FDR 1944

Are you with me or aginst me?

The Democratic Party Called Me On Saturday Morning About Micheal Jackson Buying A New Mattress

I'm on the right side of the grass, but....

Saturday morning sleeping late, the Democratic party calls for contributions and wakes me up.


The 24/7 news cycle is feeding me nothing but Micheal Jackson, Micheal Jackson, Micheal Jackson..............


It was a 102 degrees yesterday, it is supposed to be 103 degrees today.


I walk into the kitchen and the coffee maker is empty and not ready to brew.

Muddy raccoon prints are all over the floor and the cat food is gone, somebody left the cat door open.


I spent three times as much on a new mattress yesterday as a reasonable person should and it was a bargain.


Did I mention the only news is only all about Michael Jackson?

What's happening in Iran?



So what is enhancing your life these days?