Arizona

So NBC did a poll about Arizona's immigration law.

Results: 61% support the law; 39% do not.

Yes, I'd like to know who responded or how many people they polled or where those people live. Still, I ask, do such results mean nothing? Someone on the federal level--maybe the president and his flunkies--ought to pay attention.

Betty White, and isn't it a shame

This post is similar to the one on Carol's Corner, but it's not identical. Why do I post it twice? Because I am really disappointed, at least times two.

In 1952 I was 11 and we lived in Santa Monica. Betty White had a local TV show, Life With Elizabeth, co-starring Jim Backus. I loved the show, and I loved her. From then on I have liked to see her in whatever role she has played; even the stupid skits on Johnny Carson were often funny, if sometimes shady. She's good, fun, smart.

Now she's old, 88, but she is not dead and neither is her career. I have liked her in her occasional appearances on TV, and I liked her in The Proposal. So it was logical that I watch as she hosted Saturday Night Live. Of course, I have seen the show, but it is generally vulgar and stupid, so I do not watch it. And I should have known because of the over-hype about it.

I did feel some apprehension, because I figured the writers would hardly change just because the host is someone I like. Right I was to be apprehensive. She even said the F word. Why? Just to prove she could? Disgusting and quite disappointing.

Vulgar? Yes, and beyond the merely suggestive. And, really, those are all old jokes, if you can call them jokes.
Stupid? Very. And no imagination exhibited by the writers. I mean there are other themes that could have emerged beyond that of her age. Aren't there?
Funny? Not in the least.
Disappointing? Well, yes, because I expected she might be a cut above the crap. But she isn't.

I couldn't watch the whole thing, and I felt it was not a good beginning to my sabbath.

And It's My Right, too

Let's all go to Arizona carrying a placard advocating that state's rights. In fact, all states' rights.
At least, let us all remember that principle.

I Like It

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash

What I Think

You can quote me on this, but I'm not sure anyone will:

Beautiful people don't always know that people who are not beautiful are also beautiful.

Guest Post on Self Awareness

by some guy

Me: I love sunshine after a couple rainy days.
Also Me: Why is that?
M: I'm hoping the sun will dry out the rain-soaked dog poo in the front yard so I can shovel it out into the street where it belongs.
AM: Where it belongs?
M: Well, it certainly doesn't belong in my yard.
AM: It doesn't belong in the street either. Two wrongs do not make a right you know.
M: I'm not trying to be right.
AM: That's good because you know you are wrong.
M: Whoever owns the dog that leaves those huge piles in my yard drew first blood.
AM: So you're Rambo now? You going paint your face with mud and hide in the feather reed grasses and jump out the next time that mini-bulldog digs your bark out onto the sidewalk?
M: No, I'm not Rambo. Am I supposed to enjoy dog crap in my yard?
AM: No, but you are going to die of a stress-induced heart attack if you don't learn to let go of all these insignificant things that you get all worked up about.
M: Like what?
AM: Like what? Oh, like anytime we drive anywhere and you comment on every other driver and how you must’ve missed the memo that driving to the gym was now a NASCAR event. Or anytime we are in the front yard and that red pickup blazes the stop sign on the corner and you remark how he never stops there.
M: He never stops there.
AM: See? Or that time you were dropping the kids at the child watch at the gym and you made a big deal about how it stunk so bad knowing all along it was Patchouli and knowing the worker girl standing right there wears Patchouli.
M: I hate the smell of that crap.
AM: Exactly. But that doesn't mean you gotta get all worked up and make a federal case out of every little thing. Like that time at Goody's when we were getting ice cream and you asked the worker girl if she was a hippie and she said she didn't like to label things and you went off on her deconstructing her comment pointing out that every word in it was a label and how stupid it was to say labeling things is bad and how without labels for things nobody could ever communicate; we would all just point and grunt and soon even grunting would be a kind of a label. There’s no reason you need to take everything to its most ridiculous extreme.
M: ....
AM: Do you even recognize that you rant anytime someone parks backwards on the street or in a parking lot or someone cuts across a parking lot or leaves a grocery cart anywhere but in the cart return or doesn't use their blinkers when turning or anytime the neighbor takes a tool out of his shed or anytime you see someone on their mobile while driving or...
M: ....
AM: I just don't see what skin it is off your nose if someone you don't even know and won't ever see again happens to like listening to their music really loud in their car stereo as they pass you going a few miles over the speed limit. Why do you feel compelled to make a snide comment about their tastes and their passion for NASCAR e v e r y s i n g l e t i m e?
M: I see you've thought about this a lot.
AM: I want you to be self-aware.
M: Really? OK, I'll think about that while I'm out front shoveling soggy doggy poo into the street.
AM: Perfect.

Obama's Crusade

Is there no one--or not enough of them--with the courage to go against the king? Will this "health care" thing be shoved down our throats?

"We will get the votes," he says. I don't like the sound of that.

Hold firm, conservatives. Come on, moderates.