Mass Media 2

This morning, Sunday, I got up to watch Meet the Press and This Week on ABC. I wanted to hear some thing about that Solyndra deal which on the surface seems like a scandal for the White House. I don't know if it really is a scandal but it was hardly mentioned by either of the two moderators. A couple of guests did bring it up but the moderator quickly changed the subject back to what Obama can do to get re-elected.

Washington Post on Solyndra

I would have liked to hear more about the Boeing deal that may send jobs out of America because Boeing wants to move to a work free state, that is a state within the United States that does not require union membership to work but The Obama administration is trying to stop them. Why? To appease the unions even though, if Obama is successful, Boeing may move out of the US. So, on the surface it seems Obama cares more about his union contributor's than jobs for all Americans.

Washington Post on Boeing

Now my beef is with the mass media and not Obama. Why do I have to  search the Internet to know what is happening in the world? Why is Tv news now just a department within the democratic party?

Who can doubt if a republican president was involved in giving stimulus money to a company that they championed and also received campaign contributions and then went bankrupt, who can doubt that they would be broadcasting this potential scandal 24/7 ?

Broken Health care system

OK, we went through for a couple of years of debate on health care and  ended up with Obamacare. It was a nice try but it is not going to work because it does not attack the main problem with health care and that is the cost.

Up until a few years ago, most large companies provided free health insurance for their employees and their families. When I first came out to California in 1982 my family and I were covered by Screen Actors Guild after I did a couple of guest spots on TV. I maybe earned $6,000 my first year in Los Angeles. That little money I earned qualified me for full insurance. That meant not only me but my wife and the birth of my daughter in 1983. Now an actor has to earn $27,000 to qualify.

So what changed? First of all, there has been a massive immigration from Mexico of poor uneducated people who, for the most part, get at least maternity care for free.Also, they use the emergency rooms for minor ailments and are not required to show ID. If they get free health care then somebody has to pay for that care or the hospital goes out of business. And who is that? You pay for it when you get medical care with insurance. The hospital is going to bang your insurance big time to pay for free care.

Also, we have to reduce the demand for health care. How do you do that? People should not be encourage to seek medical care for every ache and pain they have. The medical industry constantly tells the public they should get annual exams and test for everything,prostrate,breast ,you name it and there is an annual test they tell you to come in and test. Of coarse the doctor, like a car mechanic, is going to find something that you will need medication for that may do more harm than good. These test and medications are not needed for basically healthy people. In fact, if you want to stay healthy, keep away from the medical industry unless it is an emergency.

I am now 72 years old and I cannot remember the last time I went to a doctor for anything and I have full coverage. Yes, I am lucky to be healthy at my age but I do things for myself that keeps me away from doctors

Fist of all, exercise is the most important. Why, I don't know but the body rejuvenates itself after a good workout and maybe builds the body better than before the workout. Next is good food. This is common sense to have a balanced diet and with exercise and some moderation you don't have to diet to keep the weight off. In fact, a lot of these fad diets are bad for you because you are denying your body of nutrients that it may need.

I hear people say they don't have any sugar or carbohydrates but if you are successful in denying yourself of these foods ,you would die.

Also, medical mistakes ranks in the top 10 reasons why people die.

So, in conclusion, common sense a little knowledge of how the body works can keep you healthy and away from the Medical Industry.

Is muliculturalism good for America?

The idea of multiculturalism reads good on paper. Different races and cultures living together in peace and harmony. Who wouldn't want that? But unfortunately in countries  where there is a mixture of different cultures and language, there is constant civil war and sectarian violence.

While America has had and still has many faults, it makes every effort to correct them.The beauty of America  is that anyone can be an American.All religions and cultures united in one language and culture. It was once called "THE MELTING POT" That is what brings diversity to a society.

We have a problem now with poor uneducated people  flooding into the country illegally and, for many of them, have no desire to assimilate. And these cowardly politicians cater to them just to get the Latino vote no matter what damage is done to society. All they care about is keeping those lucrative,fun and powerful jobs.

It is soon to be signed into law that illegal aliens will only have to pay in state tuition to go to UC colleges. That means that a American citizen coming from another state pays more than a illegal alien. Also the illegals will be eligible for tuition grants which means poor American citizens may not get the grants because the money will go to illegals.

La Times on in state tuition

One of the disasters in the school system in America today is that they no longer teach American history. Kids grow up not knowing how lucky they are to be in America .

If recent immigrants cling to their old culture and language and have no allegiance To America, they will separate into different enclaves that will clash with each other as they do everywhere else.

Look what happened to this poor guy from Italy.
A failure to communicate

It is a mistake to put any government documents in any language but English.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Is it necessary to believe in God?

When I watch animals in nature, whether in a documentary or just birds or squirrels interacting with each other, I wonder when was the point in time humans acquired a conscience.

While animals display the best in human traits such as, nurturing and protecting their young and showing courage in the hunt, they also display the worst such as birds stealing food out of the mouths of other birds and killing without remorse.While these traits are evident in humans, it is not the norm among the mass of people. No civilization could survive if everyone stole and killed without remorse.

In looking back to ancient civilizations, it is evident that they believed in and worshipped some kind of supernatural entity. It seems that it is hard wired into our consciousness to believe in life after death and a entity that watches and judges  them. If the gods were not obeyed a terrible price would be paid. Or so they believed.

It was necessary to keep order in a society. Without it, even with a iron hand government that cracked down harshly on any rule breaker, there is massive corruption by the people and their leaders and order is kept through the most horrid brutality. Look at the bleak and harsh rule of the old Soviet Union or North Korea now.

Without belief in a after life or god, if a individual thought he could get away with a crime without punishment, what is to stop him from taking advantage of a opportunity. Humans,as well as animals, are basically selfish and will do what is best for themselves, regardless of the cost to society.

Where does altruism come into play with humans that does not exist in the animal world? What prevents humans from stealing and killing each other to satisfy their desires? Is it just the law? Does the law stop serial killers? Could someone be a serial killer, that kills for pleasure , if he thought a higher power was watching him and would punish him for his evil for all eternity.

The difference between us and animals is a conscience which became part of his nature when millions of years ago some ape looked up at the stars and wondered , does my life have meaning?

If you are a non-believer, science over the last 50 years have shown evidence of Intelligent Design. For example: the universe had a beginning with the Big bang.
For more examples of Intelligent Design, go to:
Scientific Arguments against Atheism

Feminism

I know people are going to hate me for this and I will be called a sexist and every other name that they can think of but feminist should take a break and see that they have gone too far.

As I move into my sixties I see many of my peers, men and women , living alone. Some had brief marriages that maybe lasted 3 or 4 years but basically are facing old age alone with no mate and for most no children. They try to be happy and they  try to keep active, but when they talk about themselves, they cannot hide the regret.

It is only natural to find a mate and raise a family. This has been the goal for humanity for thousands of years. Men and women are meant to be together, neither is whole without the other. Nature had designed us to compensate for each other. Men have certain innate talents and so do women but they are different from each other and need each other.

I do believe women should have their freedom to do as they please as men do but to assume they don't need men in their lives is to deny themselves the only thing worth living for, to raise a successful family.

I have some female friends that are hitting their 40's and 50's, that put their career first and their basic desires were put on hold. They looked for the perfect mate that would accept them for who they are. But they would not accept anyone that didn't fit in to their illusion of the perfect man.

So ,after feminism achieved their goal to give women equal rights, they should have went home. But they pushed the agenda way past balance and created a war between the sexes.

This has affected men in a negative way. Sensing hostility from some women just because they are male, some men have taken advantage of this new found liberty for women by using them as sex objects and then discarding them without any remorse.

Before abortion and birth control, women could not have one night stands without consequences like a man could. But with this new freedom, men could put more pressure on women to have sex with them because after all,pregnancy was not a option. Feminism was the best thing that could have happened for men that seek sex without commitment.

Mass Media

Well, it is the day after the big hurricane, Irene, was supposed to go right through Times Square. The media coverage of this non-event was continuous and relentless. Even those Sunday morning news shows like Meet the Press and This week with whoever, spent almost the entire program covering a event that did not happen. Was there nothing else going on in the world? The whole thing turned out to be a big rainfall which did cause flooding but not the catastrophe that the media was hoping to happen.

And yes, I do mean hoping to happen. There's nothing better for ratings  to be on TV 24 hours a day ,reporting on some event that they all take up collectively. The similarity of the reporting is also disturbing to me. We all think that CNN,ABC,NBC and all the rest of the TV media are different companies. But they seem to have the same producers. Switching to different channels during news times, it is amazing that they all are coving the same story ,at the same time, interviewing the same person.

This backs me up

Remember the Bird flu and the,what did they call it, h1n1 something and many more scare campaigns that you can think of. It is getting to the point that you cannot believe most of what you hear and see on TV news.

Remember some years ago when, I think it was NBC magazine show,  they were doing a segment on a roll over truck. When filming the test, they couldn't get the truck to roll over naturally, so they rigged it to roll over. Then presented as proof that the truck was unsafe.  You can goggle it.

And they are so overwhelming democratic it is embarrassing. I don't have to give examples here of their bias, any honest person has to see it , even if you are a Democrat.

The strange thing is, when I debate these liberals and I bring up what I think are facts and intelligent reasoning, they say I must watch Fox News. Well, first of all, I can't afford cable and the liberals have ABC, NBC, CBS,MSNBC,CNN plus the bible of all liberalism ,The New York Times and many more.Plus Hollywood.

Did anyone see Avatar. I saw it on tape and the not so subliminal message it was sending is that America is the bad guys and the whole world should unite against it. So heavy handed , but the $400,000,000 price for the great visuals fools people into thinking they are watching something that has relevance in their lives or are they trying rile people up against the man.

So, when I try to contradict them their only retort is that I watch Fox News. It is because they listen to nothing but Liberal news and the facts that I bring up, they never heard before.And if they have never heard that info or thought through their own reasoning than who am I to contradict their mantra. Dictated to them by academics, that they feel are superior to them, than I must be a heretic, a reactionary, why I may even be a racist. To them, all things are possible if one deviates, even slightly, from  atheistic socialism.

Now most people that go along with this mentality, never heard of atheistic socialism, they go along because that is the cool thing to do. All the big movie stars and entertainers are almost all unapologetic liberals. Although their attitude has changed since the Viet Nam war. During VN, the liberals condemned the military and everyone that served. When I got out of the Navy in 1968, I had to lie to women where I had been for the last 4 tears otherwise she would turn away from me and call me a baby killer. It's nice to hear even liberals say to military, thank you for your service.

There was one actor that comes to mind ,Ron Silver.

Ron had a great acting career going , he would do a Broadway show and then a major part in a major movie. Ron was considered a Hollywood liberal until 9/11. He had said , that event changed his mind on many things and he supported Bush during the Iraq war. I don't know if it is a coincident but his career seemed to nosedive after that, didn't work as much and died a few years later. Maybe he just should have kept his mouth shut. I know I should have.

Well, that's all for now, please feel free to comment

Welcome to my rants and raves

First of all, let me tell you a little something about myself. I am, as I write this ,66 years old. To some of you young folks that think because I am so old that I don't know what is happening. You don't get to be this old if your stupid. Imagine this, I didn't have a TV until I was 7 years old.

I am grateful that I grew up when I did. My parents went through the Great Depression and then WW2. I grew up in the 50's, which overall , in my opinion, was the best decade this country ever had ,for the ordinary person. One salary, in a ordinary job, could buy you your own house and a car.

There was a sense of optimism in the people. The US was just victories in WW2 and the whole world looked up to us for guidance and protection.New industries grew providing good jobs for people that wanted them and new innovative products that made daily living easier. It wasn't all perfect, we were in the middle of the Cold War and remnants of racism and ignorance still existed in our society.

But then the 60's happened, and people wanted change. But to what? Sure, there was racism but the country was on it's way to correcting any perceived injustices but some people seemed to want to tear down everything about this country, in the name of atheistic socialism. It is like a religion in that ,you cannot convince these" believers in nothing" that they may be mistaken. No amount of evidence or reasoning can change their mind.

What did this great awakening bring to our society? First of all, they gave us drugs. Prior to the 60's, illegal drugs were way underground and they should have stayed there. Now, we have generations of useless drugged out bums , living off Social Security Disability.

They gave us "free love" which led to easy divorce, disease and the exploitation of women. Yes, women were conned into giving away their bodies in the name of being free. Believe me when I tell you, men used that to their advantage to sweet talk women into giving up their virtue.

How do they get like that? The 60's radicals that called for the fall of the United States of America are now professors in most universities in the US. Even in grammar school and high school, history is not being taught, they give something that is called history but is really political indoctrination. The news media and Hollywood adhere to this philosophy. They would never admit it but the decades from the 60's has shown ,through their work, that they have a negative belief in what America contributes to the world.

They have also demonized the military since the Viet Nam war and only recently have they relented on their attacks and have coined the phrase "thank you for your service". Maybe because of some innate guilt for not serving their country but now reap the benefits from the country they want to tear down.

Below is a poem to the Vietnam Vets 

Hell Bound Train