What pissed me off in 2005
This year, has sounded the death knell, for the news, as we used to know it. Cable news networks, with daily ratings that run by the minute now, have turned news into a popularity contest. Newspapers like the LA Times, are losing readers by the thousands, and why is this? Is it the news availability on the net, from multiple outlets?
Are we less interested in news? Or is the news, just less interesting now? I have not put my finger on the pulse of the nation, I only know why I stopped watching the news this year. It's mind numbingly dull. I cannot sit through another 10 minutes of Michael Jackson, or a Runaway Bride, or worse, the overwrought Cindy Sheehan.
Washington, is making me crazy. Republicans, spending like democrats, democrats whining like toddlers who see another kid with a cookie. Now, I know I have less patience in general being a Libertarian, but I think this is another big reason I am not watching the news.
This year, I have had it with illegal immigration. Starting January 1st, 2006, you will need a passport to get back across the border from Mexico, even if you are just going to Tijuana for the day. So, if I want to go, I have to spend $65 on a passport, and another $10 for photos. Or, I can just run across the border with the rest of the illegals we are not doing a damn thing about. I am thinking, from now on, I will pass on trips across the border. Anyhow, you can buy most of the tacky tourist stuff now here, in downtown LA. However, you do miss the joy of 6 and 7 year olds selling chiclets on the freeway offramps. Alas, I shall have to deal with the pain.
The Kabbalah people. A Canadian rabbi selling Kabbalah water for huge sums of cash, claiming healings. OK, this has officially sunk lower than Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rabbis, spend their entire lives studying Kabbalah, and Madonna thinks she knows what the hell she is doing? When religion is trendy, it does not speak well of our society at large. They are selling a red string to protect you from the evil eye. Wow, I need to get me one of those! All this time, I have been shaking in terror from that damn evil eye!
Tom Cruise? Michael Jackson? Nuff' said.
Tuki Williams, not one of the people pleading for his clemency, ever mentioned the victims, most of them did not even know their names. How upside down is that? Twenty-six year old Albert Lewis Owens, gunned down as he worked at a 7-11. The robbery netted $120. The Yang family, husband seventy-six year old Yen-Yi Yang, and wife sixty-three year old Tsai-Shai C. Yang, along with their forty-three year old daughter, Yu-Chin Yang Lin. That robbery? $100. For some odd reason, I have a tough time mustering any sympathy. Must be something wrong with me.
All summer long, crappy movies came out. The times I wanted to take the kids to the movies, there was zippo to see. Now they are all out at Christmas, at the same time, and I cannot keep up. grrrr.
Men, in general, and ongoing.
I am sure I will think of some more, and have to continue this... but in the meantime, I am not so discontented tonight.
Happy now Peter? :)
Are we less interested in news? Or is the news, just less interesting now? I have not put my finger on the pulse of the nation, I only know why I stopped watching the news this year. It's mind numbingly dull. I cannot sit through another 10 minutes of Michael Jackson, or a Runaway Bride, or worse, the overwrought Cindy Sheehan.
Washington, is making me crazy. Republicans, spending like democrats, democrats whining like toddlers who see another kid with a cookie. Now, I know I have less patience in general being a Libertarian, but I think this is another big reason I am not watching the news.
This year, I have had it with illegal immigration. Starting January 1st, 2006, you will need a passport to get back across the border from Mexico, even if you are just going to Tijuana for the day. So, if I want to go, I have to spend $65 on a passport, and another $10 for photos. Or, I can just run across the border with the rest of the illegals we are not doing a damn thing about. I am thinking, from now on, I will pass on trips across the border. Anyhow, you can buy most of the tacky tourist stuff now here, in downtown LA. However, you do miss the joy of 6 and 7 year olds selling chiclets on the freeway offramps. Alas, I shall have to deal with the pain.
The Kabbalah people. A Canadian rabbi selling Kabbalah water for huge sums of cash, claiming healings. OK, this has officially sunk lower than Trinity Broadcasting Network. Rabbis, spend their entire lives studying Kabbalah, and Madonna thinks she knows what the hell she is doing? When religion is trendy, it does not speak well of our society at large. They are selling a red string to protect you from the evil eye. Wow, I need to get me one of those! All this time, I have been shaking in terror from that damn evil eye!
Tom Cruise? Michael Jackson? Nuff' said.
Tuki Williams, not one of the people pleading for his clemency, ever mentioned the victims, most of them did not even know their names. How upside down is that? Twenty-six year old Albert Lewis Owens, gunned down as he worked at a 7-11. The robbery netted $120. The Yang family, husband seventy-six year old Yen-Yi Yang, and wife sixty-three year old Tsai-Shai C. Yang, along with their forty-three year old daughter, Yu-Chin Yang Lin. That robbery? $100. For some odd reason, I have a tough time mustering any sympathy. Must be something wrong with me.
All summer long, crappy movies came out. The times I wanted to take the kids to the movies, there was zippo to see. Now they are all out at Christmas, at the same time, and I cannot keep up. grrrr.
Men, in general, and ongoing.
I am sure I will think of some more, and have to continue this... but in the meantime, I am not so discontented tonight.
Happy now Peter? :)
posted by Dawn at 11:14 PM
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