Monday, August 27, 2007
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Reports are circulating in the popular press that dramatic actor extraordinaire Leonardo "I'm the king of the world" DiCaprio has admitted that he does not feel "inspired" by the 2008 US presidential candidates. (Oh what to do!)
Apparently the actor wasted time and energy campaigning for the haunted tree, Senator John Kerry in 2004, travelling to 14 different states to support the Democratic hopeful. However, he will not be doing the same for any of the 2008 candidates until they make their environmental policies clear. Oh crummm!
"I'm still on the fence about it, to tell you the truth. I have yet to hear a candidate that has clearly laid out their environmental policy in a way that is inspiring to me," DiCaprio told WENN.
Speaking about Kerry, Leonardo added: "I thought he had an amazing environmental policy. But I have yet to hear a candidate that has compared in that regard. I'm waiting for the right questions to be asked, and for these candidates to give really clear responses to what they're going to do in a tangible way - not a lot of rhetoric. I want to hear hardcore facts."
The hardcore fact, Lenny, is: 1) nobody really gives a damn what you think, and 2) we all know that you couldn't act your way out of paper bag (however, you don't seem to know it or realize it). So go back and go hawk a DVD release of "Growing Pains" at Walmart in an Alabama backwater strip mall and go visit Al "The earth is melting" Gore or some other Hollywood fraud.
(God, I'm feeling catty today.)
Apparently the actor wasted time and energy campaigning for the haunted tree, Senator John Kerry in 2004, travelling to 14 different states to support the Democratic hopeful. However, he will not be doing the same for any of the 2008 candidates until they make their environmental policies clear. Oh crummm!
"I'm still on the fence about it, to tell you the truth. I have yet to hear a candidate that has clearly laid out their environmental policy in a way that is inspiring to me," DiCaprio told WENN.
Speaking about Kerry, Leonardo added: "I thought he had an amazing environmental policy. But I have yet to hear a candidate that has compared in that regard. I'm waiting for the right questions to be asked, and for these candidates to give really clear responses to what they're going to do in a tangible way - not a lot of rhetoric. I want to hear hardcore facts."
The hardcore fact, Lenny, is: 1) nobody really gives a damn what you think, and 2) we all know that you couldn't act your way out of paper bag (however, you don't seem to know it or realize it). So go back and go hawk a DVD release of "Growing Pains" at Walmart in an Alabama backwater strip mall and go visit Al "The earth is melting" Gore or some other Hollywood fraud.
(God, I'm feeling catty today.)
Thursday, August 09, 2007
An acquaintance from Singapore asked me a few questions trying to understand the so-called "American mentality."
His questions:
1) Why would neighbors have so much to say about the new house getting built? They can literally stop a project just because they don't like it aesthetically.
2) Why are there so many Judge Mathis/Greg type of shows. "What not to wear", "10 years younger."
3) How come the TV can go on on on on on on on for days about Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, Anna Nicole Smith, (Princess Diana, now??) etc.
4) How come they can have so many engraved nominations of liberty and democracy when prejudice and restrictions are everywhere
5) WHy do americans talk so much? I was at a social function and was amazed how can they talk among themselves and not yawn?
6) They seem to constantly search for trivia knowledge to share. This trend is VERY American.
My observations/answers:
1. Americans like order...and I do kind of agree with that philosophy.
2. Because the American people love to convince themselves they have "justice for all" -- yet justice is only for the rich/privileged.
3. They are ASSUMING that the American public is interested in the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. It also is a distraction from dealing with what really ails American society.
4. Because they are hypocrites.
5. They get nervous when there is quiet...like they have to fill air. The average American has no use for quiet, solitude.
6. It is pseudo-intellectualism on their part. By spouting of this type of info they self gratify themselves into think that they are educated.
His questions:
1) Why would neighbors have so much to say about the new house getting built? They can literally stop a project just because they don't like it aesthetically.
2) Why are there so many Judge Mathis/Greg type of shows. "What not to wear", "10 years younger."
3) How come the TV can go on on on on on on on for days about Lindsay Lohan getting arrested, Anna Nicole Smith, (Princess Diana, now??) etc.
4) How come they can have so many engraved nominations of liberty and democracy when prejudice and restrictions are everywhere
5) WHy do americans talk so much? I was at a social function and was amazed how can they talk among themselves and not yawn?
6) They seem to constantly search for trivia knowledge to share. This trend is VERY American.
My observations/answers:
1. Americans like order...and I do kind of agree with that philosophy.
2. Because the American people love to convince themselves they have "justice for all" -- yet justice is only for the rich/privileged.
3. They are ASSUMING that the American public is interested in the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. It also is a distraction from dealing with what really ails American society.
4. Because they are hypocrites.
5. They get nervous when there is quiet...like they have to fill air. The average American has no use for quiet, solitude.
6. It is pseudo-intellectualism on their part. By spouting of this type of info they self gratify themselves into think that they are educated.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
While channel surfing I caught former Vice President Al (B)ore on Oprah winfrey where he was touting "Five ways to fight global warming."
The suggestions:
1) Use fluorescent bulbs
2) Use solar-energized outdoor lighting
3) Use computer-activated "smart" heating/cooling thermostats
4) Use a blanket on your water heater
5) Regularly change out the filter on your heating/cooling system.
While three of the suggestions are valid, AlGore hasn't thought about the unintended consequences of the first two suggestions.
Fluorescent bulbs and the solar-energized outdoor LED lighting contain dangerous levels of mercury. When disposed of incorrectly pose a threat to human beings and muck up landfills with these trace elements. Not only that, like tube-based fluorescent lights, the bulbs emit radio frequency which interfere with hearing aids. This goes to prove that there is no "free lunch," and that this really poses another good argument that we as human beings should stop using fossil-based energy resources in our daily lives, and that we should resort to returning to caves and mudhuts and campfires.... But don't campfires emit smoke which goes up into the atmosphere causing more pollution?
Which leads me to suggest the only way out of this whole cunundrum: we need to regress to pre-fire discovering cavemen living, and regress back to the evolution of humans so that we are carbon-emitting negative specie.
Sounds logical to me..... (Tongue firmly in cheek)
My Christian neighbor really made me laugh today when i needed it the most. I was complaining how so many Christians go around being the ultimate hypocrites on one hand shoving a Bible in your chest while they stab you in the back or lie, cheat, or steal. On one hand they impose a very legalistic view on how you should live while they literally get away with murder, but use the excuse and justification that because they are "born again" they will be forgiven for whatever transgression they commit.
Out of the blue he said to me, "Going to McDonald's doesn't make you any more a hamburger than going to Church makes you a Christian."
Hallelujah!
Praise The Lord!
Out of the blue he said to me, "Going to McDonald's doesn't make you any more a hamburger than going to Church makes you a Christian."
Hallelujah!
Praise The Lord!
Friday, August 03, 2007
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