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James Lipton of TV's "In The Actor's Studio" asks his guests questions that can reveal a lot about their personalities. If I was a guest, these would be my answers:

1. What is your favorite word?
"Cool" "Thank you"


2. What is your least favorite word?
"Awwww-uh"


3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Nature/The Ocean


4. What turns you off?
People fighting


5. What turns you on?
Orchestral music


6. What sound or noise do you love?
The Ocean


7. What sound or noise do you hate?
People arguing/fighting and emergency vehicle sirens


8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Police officer or Alaska oil worker


9. What profession would you not like to do?
Medical doctor/veterinarian/nurse


10. Your favorite pet
Cats


11. Your favorite swear word?
Fuck!


12. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
"You did good. You always tried your best."

I'm really getting convinced that the so called "Global Warming" is nothing but moonshine brewed up by Al Gore and his band of loonies. Since Gore was and is no longer relevant on the political scene, he has found "Global Warming" and now is out to convert the world to his new religion.

Global Warming is a device of the left to deprive people of their rights and freedoms under the phony guise of "Saving the Planet". While businesses are more than ready to pander to the green crowd by promoting so-called green products, they are just as phony as Gore.

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MY "PROBLEM" with "ISSUES"

It would seem lately that for the same reason as "misinformed" or "untrue" has replaced "lied to" or "lie," or how "detention center" is the new word for "concentration camp" or "prison" or "jail," or even how "person of interest" is the new term for "suspect," I have no idea why so many people are increasingly using the term "issue" instead of "problem"? Perhaps I guess it means the anonymous corporate cubicle lizards get to talk about things going badly, without a negative word leaving their mouth or keyboard.

I have latelynoticed this particular instance of sanitized language twisting and it seems to be becoming more commonplace. If this continues, then I imagine the word "problem" will seem unusual and alarming, and the word "issue" will no longer be able to be used in its usual sense of not implying "good" or "bad," because it will be understood to mean that something is "wrong." No matter how you look at it, if you are having an "issue" with your car or computer -- it is more honestly a "problem" with and you can't get where you need to go and you can't get your intended work done.

While similar, in a sense, these linguistic dominoes have fallen in the past, I'm happy to see that the word "handicapped" is becoming again more commonplace after being dethroned by "disabled" has taken its place. The emphasis is "disabled" is on not having something, rather than being held back.

I understand that all sorts of words have fallen into disrepute due to politically correct pressures and people's desire to to whatever they can at the time to slip out of causing a fuss or sidestep being honest about what they are talking about. One can hardly say that someone "died" without it seeming a bit harsh or callous. Apparently "passed away" or now "passed" is thought to be less jarring. But then, this makes the ordinary use of "passed" difficult by the its own.

A saving grace is that all of these euphemisms enables the creation of pleasant sounding insults, such as "cognitively challenged" rather than "stupid".

Twice lately when I have addressed someone of African descent as an "African American" versus "black" and have been loudly redressed by those as "I'm not directly from Africa nor is my family." "My family has been in American for many generations and I am 'black.'"

Part of the problem is the pressures on people, particularly in the litigious workplace and in public discourse, not to cause offense and walking on linguistic eggshells is more appropriate. Therefore, they tone everything down. Instead of the manager telling someone they did a bad job of some task, they tend to come up with a string of weasel words such as "You know, you 'could' have done a little better..."

Perhaps it is the culture of political correctness and the overabundance of lawyers -- or should I say "legal professionals" -- that is changing language so right when you come down to it one ends up uttering a bunch of words that really don't mean anything.

Tonight on HBO I watched the movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."

When the movie was in the theaters I decided I would boycott it in that I thought it would be a slam on the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, and being of Latvian/Estonian descent (part of the mix) I tend to be a little more sensitive on those kinds of things. The movie was on DirecTV pay-per-view several months ago and figured I would still boycott it until it showed up on HBO which I already pay for every month.

While the movie has some crude humor and situations, comic Sacha Baron Cohen juxtaposes it to illustrate a way more serious, bigger and deeper meaning and subtext. Just like the movie "Crash" -- the movie illustrates how people these days love to be "politically correct" in public, but when you get right down to it, Americans are still just as suspicious and racist/xenophobic/homophobic as they always have been. The recent debacle of radio shock jock Don Imus is just another example of that. (Not only that it honestly reflects what I have always felt when trying to get a job in my field of interest. People often are very friendly with me and tell me how talented I am, yet I know behind my back that they will NEVER hire anyone simply on the basis of my unusual name.)

7 stars out of 10 stars.

A friend of mine this evening suggested that he swears that some "born again Christians" grind up Bibles and snort it up their nose. "It affects their brains."

He continued to say, "Hell of a visual huh? I dont get it...Ive read the Bible...studied the Bible...consider myself Christian...am comfortable in my relationship with God and Jesus Christ...and those people...I think Jesus would be giving them all noogies if he was down here..."

"Read the New Testament...Jesus was not the hate filled freak they paint."

GREAT Video! The song could be a little better...but I get you can't ask for everything......

Who came up with this saccharin slobbery verse inside of my just opened tub of sour cream?

YECH!

"You don't drop a piranha in the kiddie pool and stick around to watch the bubbles!"

Some people were a little surprised when I supported the notion of the Napolean-like Iranian dictator visiting the United States last week to speak in front of students at Columbia University and at the United Nations. In the United States we still more-or-less have a concept of freedom of speech, but with it comes the right to practice of freedom to be considered an idiot and asshole.

Apparently this idea was not alien to the producers and actors at Saturday Night Live last night...

This was a great dialogue tonight on Showtime's mini-series, "Weeds."

Reservist: I clearly am not fit to serve.

Recruiter: In case you haven't noticed, this country is at war. Actually technically authorization has been given by an act of Congress. That's enough to activate you.

Reservist: I'm clearly am not fit to serve.

Recruiter: Can you walk?

Reservist: Not in long step. I tend to weave.

Recruiter: I didn't notice.

Reservist: I'm a drug addict.

Recruiter: We'll clean you up.

Reservist: I'm gay.

Recruiter: We have a unit for that.