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		<title>Getting real with fascinating people</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[O.K. so I do not do this blog everyday. I really have to comment on each of Barbara Walters selections of the most fascinating people of 2009. I will go through each name with my own analysis. Here we go now. 1.) Michelle Obama-Um was this a list supposed to come up with the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=26&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O.K. so I do not do this blog everyday. I really have to comment on each of Barbara Walters selections of the most fascinating people of 2009. I will go through each name with my own analysis. Here we go now.</p>
<p>1.) Michelle Obama-Um was this a list supposed to come up with the people who would sit down with Barbara Walters. I would substitute Barack Obama rather than Michelle Obama. I mean Michelle Obama is interesting but definitely not the number one most interesting person.</p>
<p>2.) Lady Gaga-I agree with her being on the list. Lady Gaga has an interesting look and an interesting year. The main test is whether Lady Gaga will not be a one-hit wonder or a future contestant on Dancing with the Stars (p.s. um horrible rumors involving the season 10 cast which could be the worst season ever and this is not including MC whitebread)</p>
<p>3.) Glenn Beck-I would put Glen Beck number 1.  Glenn Beck could be back in 2010 as I think he might have a huge presence in the 2010 elections. It is not wise to underestimate the right wing ever. There could be some surprises and Glenn Beck might play a part in those surprises.</p>
<p>4.) Tyler Perry-Um a man dresses up as a woman and is also involved in Precious. Why is not Captain Sullenberger on this list. Captain Sullenberger saved people. You know what I have to do this year. Yep dress up as a woman and suck up to Oprah Winfrey. O.K. who is next on this overrated list</p>
<p>5.) Kate Gosselin-Are you f@#$%^ kidding me. Susan Boyle is more interesting than Kate Gosselin. No one expected Susan Boyle to succeed with her looks and Boyle has more talent than Gosselin. Kate Gosselin needs to concentrate on raising her kids and not go into her &#8220;Don&#8217;t cry for me Argentina&#8221; crusade. By thr way, if Gosselin is on Dancing with The Stars, I am not watching. Tom Bergeron put Anna Kournikova on over Kate Gosselin. !@#$ I still have more to go.</p>
<p>6.) Adam Lambert &#8211; He deserves to be on this list.</p>
<p>7.) Sarah Palin &#8211; Deserves to be on this list. Sarah Palin could be a force to be reckoned with in 2010.</p>
<p>8.) Brett Favre &#8211; The most indecisive man in America. The biggest crybaby in America. Brett dragged the Packers down with his inability to decide. He has retired two times but then decided to change his mind. Brett has done an impressive job with the Vikings in 2009. However I am predicting that the Vikings will not go to the Super Bowl.  Favre&#8217;s skills have eroded over the years.</p>
<p>9.) Jenny Sanford &#8211; Huh. I do not know why she is on the list. I know the husband was an idiot and she stood by her man. I didn&#8217;t know that a woman who sticks with her philandering husband automatically gets on Barbara Walter&#8217;s list of fascinating people. Sandra Bullock had a bigger year than Jenny Sanford in terms of success. Sandra was the biggest box office star of 2009 and her husband didn&#8217;t go soliciting a woman in another country. Woo-hoo one more loser I mean person to go</p>
<p>10.) Michael Jackson&#8217;s three children &#8211; This choice really irritates me. The media trashed Michael Jackson for a long period of time. The shame is in what happened after Michael Jackson&#8217;s passing is the Jackson family exploiting Michael Jackson&#8217;s children. I am sure that Michael would want those kids to be sheltered and not exploited. Why wasn&#8217;t James Cameron&#8217;s name put on this list. Cameron made his first movie since Titanic and it was the most expensive movie ever.</p>
<p>Well I look forward to next year where Barbara Walters gets a list of ten people that are important to her and not relevant to the general public.</p>
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		<title>A little fact checking wouldn&#8217;t hurt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am appalled by the lack of fact checking regarding the Tiger Woods scandal. I do not understand why no news reporters are citing the 1997 GQ article involving a very young Tiger Woods. The article basically revealed that Tiger Woods is a man with a healthy libido. Does any news reporter in 2010 not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=23&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am appalled by the lack of fact checking regarding the Tiger Woods scandal. I do not understand why no news reporters are citing the 1997 GQ article involving a very young Tiger Woods. The article basically revealed that Tiger Woods is a man with a healthy libido. Does any news reporter in 2010 not check older articles involving Tiger Woods for an accurate representation? I found the article from GQ from 1997 in 2 minutes via Google. A cave man could find that information quicker than any news reporter on TV or cable. The main thing we all need to acknowledge is men have libidos. Men will not be always forthcoming about their libidos and they do not need to be subject to endless analysis of their mindsets. It will be nice where I can live in an environment where a politician&#8217;s affairs are given more scrutiny than an athlete or actor&#8217;s marital problems.</p>
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		<title>Unoffical requests for a happy new year in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for me to get my requests to America and the world.  Here is my top ten list of things that I would love to see happen in 2010. 1.) Democrats and Republicans come together for a bill designed to curtail people like Richard Heene and the Salahis from gaining their fifteen minutes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=19&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is time for me to get my requests to America and the world.  Here is my top ten list of things that I would love to see happen in 2010.</p>
<p>1.) Democrats and Republicans come together for a bill designed to curtail people like Richard Heene and the Salahis from gaining their fifteen minutes of fame. I am proposing a bill that would impose a $100,000 fine and five years in prison for any person or persons who commits fraud in trying to attain their fifteen minutes of fame.</p>
<p>2.) Journalists need to be more responsible to get a story right before putting it on the air or the web. I remember when I was in college that I had to use multiple sources to confirm my information or make my point. Journalists need to be held to the same standards that a college student has to be held to. You do not need to rush a story about a boy being in the air as a balloon when it is later learned that it was a hoax. It is sad when a fake news anchor has more credibility than all of the journalists on the major three networks news divisions.</p>
<p>3.) There needs to be more focus on the Iraq war and the men involved. It seems in my opinion that the only way you could gain a platform to talk about the Iraq war is to come back from Iraq, have coitus with a woman, and produce 10 kids. Reality stars should be sent to Iraq to see the true meaning of reality.</p>
<p>4.) Consideration of a salary cap in baseball. I know this is not likely but not every major league baseball free agent will succeed in New York or Boston. A franchise like the Milwaukee Brewers should be able to improve their team via free agency rather than trying to outspend the New York Yankees.</p>
<p>5.) The New York Yankees need to take ownership of being the biggest a@#$%! in sports. I would love Brian Cashman to say the following. &#8220;Our team will do our best to defend our World Series title. We may or may not increase a payroll for the (insert year and season here)&#8221; I would respect the Yankees more if they just told the truth. The Yankees were going into the 2010 season trying to decrease their payroll but took on contracts like Granderson and Vazquez that will boast their payroll over $200 million in the long run.</p>
<p>6.) Stop overhyping TV shows and movies as events. When are images taken from a camera qualify as an event. A wedding is an event. A funeral is an event. I don&#8217;t need what I am going to see to be overhyped. No TV show or movie ever leads up to its hype.</p>
<p>7.) Obama needs to follow thorough on his message of change. I would really like for Obama to stop spending his time on TV and devote his time to fixing all of the things that occurred during the previous administration. There will be several seats in play for the Democratic party. People regardless of political persuasion want their elected leaders to do something constructive and not speak in catch phrases. Your fifteen minutes are up Obama. You need to bring it or else a Republican will be president in 2013.</p>
<p>8.) Stop overhyping the H1N1 virus. There needs to be a more conscious interest in the American public to take care of the hygiene. The main thing that irritates me is how the vaccine was distributed. It was initally limited to pregnant woman and people under the age of 24. This basically meant that if were 25 and older, you were screwed if you got the H1N1 virus. People including myself need to take personal responsibility for making sure to avoid sickness.</p>
<p>9.) Tiger Woods setting a course record in the first tournament he plays in. Tiger Woods was the most dominant athlete from 2000-2009. Tiger Woods will still be a dominant force in the sports woods once he gets back to playing golf.</p>
<p>10.) There needs to be a national discussion between men and women about communicating each other&#8217;s needs. Men and women do rush into marriages for mutual convenience. In the long run, this is not always the best path for a successful marriage. Men need to address their concerns to their partners over what they need in this relationship. Women need to address their concerns to their partners over what they need in this relationship. Communication is not an easy thing for anybody. I try to work on my communication every day. I have good days and bad days. I wonder if Tiger Woods had communicated his concerns to his wife, things might have turned out differently for him.</p>
<p>I am guessing that by the first week of January most of these requests will not happen. Oh well there is always 2011. D&#8217;oh.</p>
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		<title>Getting real with reality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reality shows have been the most prominent TV genre for a while. I have to question the judgment of people who take part in reality shows. Kate Gosselin is trying to say that she is not a celebrity. The truth is Kate you are a celebrity. If millions of people watch your reality show, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=18&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reality shows have been the most prominent TV genre for a while. I have to question the judgment of people who take part in reality shows. Kate Gosselin is trying to say that she is not a celebrity. The truth is Kate you are a celebrity. If millions of people watch your reality show, you are a celebrity by default. The same standard would be applied to Kate Beckinsale. If people go to a Kate Beckinsale film, then Kate Beckinsale is a celebrity. Kate and Jon Gosselin chose to put their lives and kids on TV. People who watched their show displayed an interest in the lives of Jon and Kate and their childen. If I had kids, I would not put them through a reality show. If a couple has kids, that couple makes decisions on a daily basis of what to do with their kids. Kate needs to look at her decision and not try the woe is me defense when talking about how she didn&#8217;t want to be a celebrity. The other part is people on a reality shows did not realize what they signed up for. Um I could assume that the people who are enlisted for a reality show had to sign a contract. The contract would have spelled out the terms on which the participants had to abide by and that cameras would be involved. Let me give an example of a celebrity who played the Seargant Schultz defense by pretending to know nothing about her reality show. Whitney Housoton claimed on the Oprah Winfrey show that she did not know what she was getting into. Um Whitney crack is whack but you knew what you were getting into. I am going to go watch some scripted shows with actors who know what they are getting into. I am just trying to keep it real.</p>
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		<title>Revenge of the Yankees-Part 1-Why the Yankees championship is not valid.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could not bear to watch the coverage of the Yankees winning the championship. I am troubled by the fact that the Yankees spend over $400 million dollars for CC Sabithia, Mark Teixiera, and A.J. Burnett. Why should any team be allowed to spend that much money just to win a championship? If there was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=15&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I could not bear to watch the coverage of the Yankees winning the championship. I am troubled by the fact that the Yankees spend over $400 million dollars for CC Sabithia, Mark Teixiera, and A.J. Burnett. Why should any team be allowed to spend that much money just to win a championship? If there was a salary cap, CC Sabithia should be a Brewer, Teixieira a National or Oriole and A.J. Burnett a Blue Jay. We need to take a look at other major sports that have a salary cap. Let&#8217;s take the Minnesota sports teams. In major league baseball, the Minnesota Twins have to rely on their minor league talent only to lose those special players when free agency comes around. In the NBA, the Minnesota Timberwolves were able to get into the playoffs due to the play of Kevin Garnett for a number of years who took up a huge chunk of their salary cap. In the NFL, the Minnesota Vikings were able to land Brett Favre and Adrian Peterson and look like a Super Bowl contender. Now let me get back to the Yankees. The Yankees did not need to go after Teixeira. The Yankees had traded for Nick Swisher and could have inserted Swisher at first base and they would have done fine. Teixiera would have provided a huge impact for either the Nationals or Orioles and would have made both of these teams somewhat competitive. I worry about the upcoming free agency period and the potential free agents available. The Yankess could make a play for Matt Holliday, Jason Bay, or another prominent free agent. I would really have more respect for the Yankees if they could win a championship with a salary cap. Other teams in other sports have been able to get in the playoffs year after year within the confines of a salary cap. The Yankees, in my opinion, are composed of 25 mercenaries designed to ruin the game of baseball. I can&#8217;t wait to see if the Yankees decide to pay $500 million in order to maintain the role of the most vilified franchise in sports.</p>
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		<title>Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize winner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me make something painfully clear. I do appreciate the historical significance of Barack Obama as the first African American President in U.S. history. I am still trying to figure out how Barack Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize. I had thought the Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to go to someone qualified who has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=6&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me make something painfully clear. I do appreciate the historical significance of Barack Obama as the first African American President in U.S. history. I am still trying to figure out how Barack Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize. I had thought the Nobel Peace Prize was supposed to go to someone qualified who has achieved peace in the world during the year. Was this award based on the potential that Obama might bring in his four-eight years in office? Was this award meant to be a rebuke to George W. Bush? The sad fact is that Gandhi never won a Nobel Peace Prize. How do you go about your life maintaining a message of peace like Gandhi and never get any recoginition? You know that there are many people in the world who go unrecognized that try to spread the message of peace. Why wasn&#8217;t either Bono or Shakira awarded for their efforts to promote peace? Bono was a finalist for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. I am sure that Bono has better qualifications than Obama for promoting peace. Obama is the Anakin Skywalker of the political world. Obama is the one person who is supposed to bring balance to the world like Anakin was supposed to bring balance to the force. It is time to truly give out awards based on the body of work during the year for a person or group who has worked day after day to promote peace in the world. The Nobel Peace Prize committee did itself a disservice in nominating a person like Barack Obama who has failed to deliver on any of the promises since he was in office. Hopefully in 2010 the Nobel Peace Prize committee can actually pick a qualfied candidate who has accomplished peace in the world and not give it to an individual who may or may not promote peace in the world.</p>
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		<title>The News my love and now hate relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me start out with the fact that I used to love news when I was eight years old. I had a contest in the fourth grade where I got the chance to pick an article and do a who where why when for the article. I even used to watch Headline News while my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deluxe74.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9798929&amp;post=1&amp;subd=deluxe74&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me start out with the fact that I used to love news when I was eight years old. I had a contest in the fourth grade where I got the chance to pick an article and do a who where why when for the article. I even used to watch Headline News while my cousins played outside. Yes I was a weird kid growing up. Now when I watch any 24 hours news channels or the local news I wonder if I should hit myself in the head with a steel chair. Where do I begin. I was amazed to learn that Erin Andrews has a stylist. Um why do you need a stylist if you are reporting the news. Hmm is the point of news is to actually tell a story or just to look good why telling a story. A man does not have to worry about a stylist because we have different hairstyles: bald or not so bald. It also seems that reporters like to shorten the names of the network shows instead of giving the full name. I am trying to find out how hard it is for any television reporter to say the words Good Morning America. Do you not have the intellectual capacity to form a cogent sentence or did the many years of drinking in college rob you of your intellectual capacity? Anyway I still have to say that Jon Stewart is the best source of news. You would be amazed by the facts that Jon Stewart uses in his broadcasts. Remember the truth shall set you free. Now I have to go find a steel chair to make it through a news broadcast.</p>
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