Friday, February 27, 2009

Governor threatened to whip reporters ass

This video is a priceless event on Mississippi TV Newscast TEN YEARS AGO.

The Governor of Mississippi had a mistress.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBk6MzXBdJU







I had to research this and what I found out was classic. A political devil for sure.

In 1996, Former Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice signed an executive order banning same-sex marriages in Mississippi. I guess this was his contribution to protecting the sancticity of marriage. But he was also cheating on his own marriage during that time.(so much for honoring marriage) and this TV report was in 1999.

Fordice's term of Governor ended in 2000. He died in 2004 the same year that voters in Mississippi voted to amend the state's constitution to strengthen Kirk Fordice's earlier executive order BANNING same-sex marriages

And it was his EX-WIFE who was by his side at the time of his death.
(I wonder what she said to him that day)

The governor married that other woman and they divorced a short time later. Another successful example of marriage in Mississippi huh?

Oh, he also suggested that Bill Clinton resign from the office of President of the United States during his scandal with Monica and her Blue Dress.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

They say "Call him PRESIDENT OBAMA"!

In the great 1967 film "In The Heat Of The Night", a black police detective named Virgil Tibbs found himself stuck in a small Southern town where he would surely not get any respect. The locals in the town would still refer to him as "boy" while he was clearly a grown man.

My favorite line in the film was when police Chief Gillespie laughed about Virgil Tibbs name and asked what to the people in his northern hometown of Philadelphia called him, then Sidney Poitier responded with a strong "They call me MISTER TIBBS". That response didn't sit too well with Bill Gillespie who by the way NEVER called "Mr Tibbs" by the more formal name. In both the movie and the television versions of "in the Heat of The Night", the Bill Gillespie character called him "Virgil". And except for "Virgil Tibbs" wife and family, nobody else EVER addressed the man by his first name.

What does my recollection of an old movie and TV show have to do with this post?
Well, this posting started out as a rant. There is a conversation in certain circles that really gets on my last nerve.

I keep hearing people talk about how we should address the President of The United States. There are many people, ESPECIALLY African-American people expressing their demands that everyone (especially news media, talk radio show hosts and non-blacks) say "President Obama" or "President Barack Obama" and NOT to say "Barack Obama" or "Obama" or any other nickname. People are insisting that the president of the United States be addressed with the respectful name title and to "give him the respect that he deserves". Some have even said not to address him or talk about him using "Mr Obama". The demand is that you say PRESIDENT before you say anything.

Before anyone thinks that I am "hating" on the President you should KNOW this about me. I did not vote for him. I am an independent and I voted Libetarian in past elections. Just about NONE of my votes counted for much. And thats ok with me. I simply don' t support Democrats or Republicans. I refuse to support what I think is a disfunctional two party dominated system and I wish we could abolish it. I am a growing minority. However I also refuse to sit on my ass on election day. I have not missed a single election since I was age 18.

Having said that I fully believe in fairness and will call out hyprocracy when I see it. And I think I see it very clearly in this issue some have in how we should address the President.

Why all of a sudden are people so demanding of respect? Are you demanding respect for the position or respect for the man holding the position? The position itself may deserve respect but I think the PERSON holding the position needs to EARN respect. If you think he or she has earned that respect, then respect him with the title or naming of your choice.

Some of the people making these demands about how to address the president may also believe in some illusion of a "freedom of speech" too. But then turn into hyprocrates when criticizing how others speak.

If I were to meet the President personally, I would address him with the appropiate "Mr President" unless the man himself directs me to say differently. But what about his wife? I haven't heard ANYONE express the same demands to properly address her as Mrs. Obama. As she is the President's wife, why isn't everyone addressing her in a more respectful way? Do you know her as well as the girlfriends you hang out with at the mall? Probably not! So why isn't Michelle Obama getting the respect that the die hard fans of her husband are demanding for him?

Back to how people think we should respect the President. If a man in his position should be addressed or talked about with the title President mentioned BEFORE anything else, then where were you people when names like "Dubya", The letter W, "BUSHit" or "Bushy" were thrown around? It seems that the very people who are demanding that everyone properly respect the current president had NO problem using nicknames or disrespecting the previous president. Now the shoe is on the other foot as Republicans refuse to respect the current president. Plus some just forget to say "President" while meaning no harm or disrespect, yet they too get called out for their failure to show the respect that some people think should be expressed.

BTW, many conservatives are demanding that the "hockey Mom" from Alaska be called the respectful title of "Governor Palin". Which also has me wondering why they have bumper stickers with just her first name on it. Those bumper stickers replaced the black "W" stickers in the rear windows of SUV's and Minivans across America.

I don't get it. Looks like people want one thing but do another AND the women are getting no respect. I wonder if a Liberal ever called Sarah Palin a "GAL" how angry would Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity get?

Then there those who claim stupid things like "MY president" or "their president". NO, he is OUR president whether you voted for him or not. And while I think some of the nicknames being used by the people who don't like the current president are juvenile and unnecessary I do think that both sides need to need to get over themselves.

This demand for the world to say "President" before anything else is as much a waste of time as the issues raised during the election over the excessive use of his middle name. And that too showed a lot of bias and hyprocracy as we never heard the other candidate referred to as John Sidney McCain. But wait, that name didn't have a controversial connection.

Anyone ever watch the 1980's TV show "Love Sidney"? Well I would compare that as punishment on par with John SIDNEY McCain's being held prisoner during the Vietnam War. That is my STUPID connection with the senator's middle name. The TV show was that bad.

Anyway, my observation is that Barack Hussein Obama, The President of The United States of America is the ONLY one not making an issue out of juvenile things like name titles. He is the only one working on more important issues while "the rest of us" are behaving like immature and ignorant brats unworthy of respect ourselves. I do respect our President for showing some class.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Amazing Race 14 Weekly Blog: As sweet as a Cherry Pie in your face

It has been a rather strange Sunday for me but I made it home just in time for the next installment of THE AMAZING RACE 14 and as I watch I compose this, my weekly Amazing Race blog.

Some changes in the appearance of the show include an updated theme song and some fantastic editing that allows you to watch two teams at a time with smooth transition from one scene to the next. It has

The first pit stop was in the Swiss Alps and the team in first place is MARGIE & LUKE, a mother and son team with Luke being the first ever contestant on The Amazing Race who is deaf.

Margie & Luke left at 2:45am, siblings Tammy & Victor at 2:47am, brothers Mark & Michael at 2:59, father and son Mel & Mike at 3:19am and dating couple Amanda & Kris at 3:47am. Married couple Brad & Victoria and the former Miami Dolphin Cheerleaders Jaime & Cara each left at 3:56am followed 6 minutes later by siblings Kisha & Jen. Then the married couple from Virginia left at 4:04am and the final team to leave was Christie & Jodi at 4:12am. So we have a 90 minutes spread in departure times from the pit-stop. But as usual for a middle of the night departure, the AMAZING RACE EQUALIZER as (I call it) could have come into play because of flight schedules.

Most teams made their airline reservations while traveling to the airport thanks to the use of borrowed cell phones from their taxi drivers. Teams first had to fly to Munich, Germany then drive themselves to the town of Ruhpolding and most teams were able to get on the earliest flight to Munich leaving at 7:15am. However MARK & MICHAEL did not call ahead to make their reservations and found themselves having to wait for a later flight along with last place team Christie & Jodi who did call ahead and discovered the early flight was booked so they already reserved the next available flight. Mark, Michael, Christie & Jodi were going to be at least an hour behind everyone else but they had an opportunity to catch up with everyone at the next task.

Once in Munich, teams drove Mercedes-Benz automobiles on the Autobahn to Ruhpolding and Tammy & Victor surged ahead to first place. Kisha & Jen got lost along the way. Once in Rupholding teams had to ride a cable car to the top of a 6000 foot mountain to locate their first clue, THE ROADBLOCK

The “roadblock” task had teams paraglide to the bottom of the mountain or if wind conditions were too severe, they could take a hour long hike down the mountain. For those who don’t know, the “roadblock” task is actually a task done by ONE of the team members. The other either waits or performs another task while meeting their partner at the end of the task.

The wind conditions were too severe for the paragliding so most teams chose to do the hike down the hill while MEL, who hurt his groin during the last leg decided to wait for the winds to calm. In doing so, all the other teams caught up and left to hike leaving Mel & Mike at the top of the hill.
Mel, who happens to be a former minister talked about praying for the wind to change and (possibly through creative editing) the wind did change so he was the only one who paraglided and landed in time to leave the roadblock in 5th place. Tammy hiked down the mountain and left the roadblock with her brother Victor in 1st place, a position they would maintain all day.

I was not surprised that the ONE team member to screw up during the roadblock would be LINDA, the whiny other half of Steve and the major reason I predicted their elimination for this round. She made a wrong turn along the marked hiking path, ended up on the other side of the mountain crying and a local woman kindly drove Linda back to the correct path. By then they were in last place.

Next was a 25 mile drive to the “detour” task choices of “Balancing Dolly” where teams would have to ride a SEGUE vehicle through a 2 mile obstacle course or “Austrian Folly” where team members would have to throw a pies into each other’s face until they discover a pie with a cherry filling. Can you say “food fight”? And those pies looked so good. If I were there, I wouldn’t want to throw anything. I’d want to chow down in that dessert wonderland.

After the “roadblock” teams had to run to a wood cutter who would saw a log and stamp the next clue onto the wood. That clue would send the teams to the next pit-stop which was a drive to a castle called the Schloss Hellbrunn

The first time to arrive at the pit-stop was TAMMY & VICTOR and for their arrival, they each won a hybrid go-cart.


SECOND: Mel & Mike
THIRD: Amanda & Kris
FOURTH: Margie & Luke
FIFTH: Brad & Victoria

And these teams arrived after dark
SIXTH: Jaime & Cara
SEVENTH: Kisha & Jen
EIGHTH: Mark & Michael
NINTH: Christie & Jodi

And I GOT A PREDICTION RIGHT EARLY IN THE RACE! Yes I am happy!

OH, the country bumpkins from rural Virginia, STEVE & LINDA were last and they were eliminated.

If anyone has ever read my Amazing Race blogs on MySpace, then you know I predict the elimination every week and I have usually a poor track record in making these predictions. But this one was easy to predict last week. Linda was in no way capable of doing this. All the Amazing Race was going to be for her and her husband Steve was a really cool vacation of a lifetime. I do hope they enjoyed it. I am also glad to have a major whiner like Linda eliminated EARLY.

I am starting to see the weaknesses in teams that I feel are ingredients for failure on The Amazing Race. Teams that bicker with each other or have where one partner is bossy over the other often don’t do well on the race. Their attitudes take away from good teamwork and distract them from their mission. With that I we saw a relationship struggle between the siblings Kisha & Jen. We also see this in the current first place team Tammy & Victor. In both cases, the older sibling appears to assume the dominant role which leaves the younger sibling having problems with it which turns into problems for the team. Tammy & Victor seem to be the stronger team physically and may make it very far in this race despite any developing relationship issues.

I often refer to teams by some not-so-nice nicknames for good reason. Sometimes those teams admit on the show that they play the part of that nickname. So if I call Christie & Jodi “blonde bimbos” for their performance on this week’s broadcast I believe I am quite accurate. They completely misunderstood the directions leading them to the wood cutter for their final clue. Part of that misunderstanding had them thinking they actually had to cut their own wood. So they remain in last place with what appears to be many hours to catch up.

With that, I make my prediction for next weeks elimination for CHRISTIE & JODI. We don’t know just how many hours behind they are from the rest of the teams but to be in last place with half of the teams having arrived at the pit-stop during daylight is not a good place to be. Being a couple of “blonde bimbos” making mistakes don’t help either. So again, I predict Christie & Jodi for next elimination.

The previews for next week’s broadcast indicate that one team loses their money and passports. This happened to a team last season and it proved to be a fatal mistake. But previews don’t always give any strong hints. So we will just have to see next week. And I will blog about it.

So see you next week, same Amazing Race time, same Amazing Race channel.

Monday, February 16, 2009

The Amazing Race 14 weekly Blog: Who drops the Cheese?

Greetings everyone.

This is the first of my weekly blogs expressing my own observations of a favorite television contest, “The Amazing Race” season 14. I have been doing this for the past three years and this will be the first time that I posted my weekly Amazing Race blogs on blogspot. I posted the previous season’s opinions on MySpace but it has become more difficult to post blogs there because of their ever changing settings that mess up a good blog posting many times forcing me to go back and “fix” problems with my blog’s appearance. Also, I think for more access and less drama, its time to go a more mainstream and intelligent route.

This is not to say that I am in any ways “intelligent”. Actually when it comes to “The Amazing Race” I can be a bit of a bitch. I am totally biased against certain types of people but I try my best to be open minded.

I love the show for I feel this is one of the greatest competitions on television. I love to see the adventure and certainly love to watch as they travel worldwide. It inspires me to want to travel abroad which I never have. I also had a few minutes of insanity when I for some reason thought I too could be a contestant on The Amazing Race. Then I see the teams in some foreign land where they would have to ride on filthy trains then over eat fried exotic rodents or worms in some alleged fine dining establishment and we sometimes see one of the contestants vomiting on the side of the dinner table. Those moments tend to cure me of my dream of ever becoming a contestant on The Amazing Race.

And just to put “for the record”, as you read my blogs you will see that I often give teams my own nicknames often referring to specific “tokens”. What do I mean by “tokens”? Well if you haven’t noticed, there seems to be this formula in selecting teams for The Amazing Race. You have a “friends” team. Then you have to have the token young married couple, the token older married couple, the newly dating couple and the couple with relationship issues, the token siblings, the token best buds who are either horny jock type wannabes, blue collar working stiffs or bumbling nerds. There are also either “the country bumpkins” or “Hillbillys” or “hippies” team. Usually one of those at a time especially the one year there was the “goth” team. There are the token parent/child teams and you ABSOLUTELY have include the token Black (or “African American) couple so as for the show to not be considered “racist” and they could also be any of the other “tokens” that I mentioned. One of my favorite teams in the history of The Amazing Race are the winners of the show from 2005, married couple Uchenna & Joyce.

Other “token” categories in my biased and sometimes bitchy blog expressions are the all-female teams. One is almost always the blonde bimbos or beauty queens depending on my mood and their success in the race. Then there are the brunette bimbos or beauty queens. And for some reason, the brunettes tend to be rather bitchy but can kick some ass on the show.

And finally, there is usually the token gay or lesbian contestant. Every show must have at least one but the Amazing Race may have missed in a couple seasons. One gay couple won the Amazing Race in its early years. They were two good looking athletic guys named Chip and Reichen. And for some reason the guy named “Reichen” (pronounced RYE-KEN) is assumed to be some sort of gay male god. To me he appears to be a self involved “think he is so cute” asshole who must drools while checking himself out in front of a full length mirror naked every morning. I think he is an arrogant no-talent shallow shit.

Yes, that is one of the biased opinions I tend to post about The Amazing Race. Oh and there have been gay drama queen types on the show over the years too. Lesbians have been represented on the show as well but I regret it was not with much success.

This season’s gay team is also a father and son team. BOTH the father and the son are gay! And I predict that neither of them are going to get much respect in the gay community because they aren’t picture perfect for any centerfold. I still wish them well.

Sometimes The Amazing Race will include a team member with a special condition showing the world that despite whatever disability or impairment, a person CAN achieve. One year the show had a woman who lost one leg but still triumphed in athletics. Unfortunately she partnered with a whiny control freak idiot who was fully capable in athletics but also full of poor attitude which I think was the biggest disadvantage for their team. They were eliminated half way through that season. This season will include the first ever DEAF contestant as part of the parent/sibling team on the show.


As you read my weekly postings you will see that I tend to support the underdog and the older and more mature contestant. I detest crybabies, arrogance and control freaks on The Amazing Race despite my being a bit of a control freak myself. I believe in real teamwork and partnership in The Amazing Race. I think of alliances on the race as a recipe for disaster and eventual deceit. I could go on to warn you of further biases I have as a dedicated fan of The Amazing Race but I hope you will take time to read my weekly ramblings to learn for yourself. You may love me or hate me for it but I will have fun posting it.

And I must advise you that I watch and compose my blog as the show is being broadcast. Here I will post my immediate unfiltered observations. I most likely will post them BEFORE the show is broadcast in western time zones. So consider this a spoiler warning.

I also offer my own predictions and wishes for winners and people being eliminated each week. I am usually WRONG in my predictions and I will admit it when I am wrong and brag like a brat when I am right, especially if it is a team that I don’t like.

As you read my weekly Amazing Race blog I am assuming that you have researched the teams and read their bio’s on The Amazing Race website. At least I hope you have.

If you want to know how I have expressed myself about previous seasons of The Amazing Race, AND if you have too much time on your hands, then search the archives of my blog on MySpace. You’ll find any title with “The Amazing Race” as my weekly blog entry.

Now on to season 14, the first in a couple years to begin in February. The show has been on since 2001 and I became a fan in 2005. Normally there are TWO seasons in a year with one in the Fall and the other in the late winter and early spring. I tend to enjoy when the show airs new episodes in the winter as they aren’t so frequently delayed due to sporting events on a Sunday afternoon, (ie: NFL Football).


As usual the show begins in Southern California with the 11 teams arriving in marine helicopters then teams got to drive nice Mercedes Benz vehicles through the maddening Southern California traffic to the airport in Los Angeles. The teams had to choose one of two specific flights to either Milan or Zurich then take a train to Switzerland. One team, Jennifer & Preston (a dating couple from South Carolina) missed their train connection and while waiting found themselves in a heated discussion. One would think that missing that train would put the team behind but once in the town of Locarno, teams had to travel on foot to a church and any lost time that some teams had would be made up.

This is what I call the “Amazing Race Team Equalizer” where because of flight schedules or closed facilities teams that had fallen behind will catch up and possibly surpass other teams.

Teams had camp out in front of a church and signed up for an assigned departure time the next morning. Each time had a few teams leaving in 15 minute intervals. The next morning gave teams their clue to travel via taxi to a water dam for the season’s first “Roadblock” task of bungy jumping from the water dam.

Did I mention that BUNGY JUMPING is another cure of my dreams of being a contestant on The Amazing Race? Somehow a million dollars isn’t enough for me to do some things. There isn’t a bungy cord strong enough for my fat ass nor am I crazy enough to attach one to me and go over. Sorry but it aint happening for me. I don’t want to be the first Amazing Race contestant to shit my pants on national television.

Well, after the teams Bungy Jumped, they traveled by train to the city of Interlaken where they would have the next task of hiking up a steep and slippery hill then transport heavy blocks of cheese on racks attached to their backs to the bottom of a hill. Teams would have to stack two cheese blocks each at the bottom of the hill.

Several struggled by slipping on the hill, breaking the racks and dropping their round blocks of cheese. This task was especially difficult for 68 year old MEL, the gay father teamed with his gay son MIKE. Mel struggled to carry the 100 pound block of cheese and summoned help from his son to return to the top of the hill. A very early indication that any openly gay representation on this season’s Amazing Race will be very short lived. Also struggling throughout this first leg of the race was 53 year old LINDA, the wife of STEVE in what I could call the token “country bumpkin” team from small town Virginia. Linda was a little emotional and whiny about most things and her husband Steve who is ten years her junior often fussed at his wife to keep up the pace. She was no match for climbing the hill.

After the cheese on the hill, teams were sent to the town of Stechelberg where they would have to locate a group of yodelers at the site of the first PIT STOP. The first to arrive at the pit stop were the mother and son team MARGIE & LUKE and for the first time in Amazing Race history, host Phil Keogian used sign language to tell Margie & Luke their position in the race.

For their first place arrival at the pit-stop, Margie & Luke won a vacation package to Mexico from Amazing Race sponsor Travelocity.

The remaining arrivals were as follows

SECOND PLACE: Siblings TAMMY & VICTOR
THIRD PLACE: Brothers MARK & MICHAEL
During this time, an emotional Luke expressed how he wanted to show the world that deaf people can achieve things. So far, he and his mother made first place.

FOURTH PLACE: Gay father and Gay son MEL & MIKE. Who made it by the luck of other teams being slightly delayed in their travel prior to having to carry the heavy cheese.

FIFTH PLACE: Dating couple AMANDA & KRIS
SIXTH PLACE: Older married couple BRAD& VICTORIA
SEVENTH PLACE: Former Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders JAMIE & CARA.

My bias as a lifelong fan of my hometown Miami Dolphins requires me to support this all-female team, a couple of red head beauty queen cheerleaders who I hope will do better on The Amazing Race than the team they used to cheer for does in a regular NFL season.

EIGHTH PLACE: Sisters (or “Sistas” if you wish) KISHA & JEN
NINTH PLACE: Country bumpkin married couple STEVE & LINDA made it to the pit stop despite the drama dragging and crying of Linda. Something tells me that ninth place is the best we are going to see out of them. But then underdogs do tend to wake up and surprise us. Or stay along just long enough for comic relief.

And then the final two arrivals are an example of creative editing and surprise leading to a foot race to the finish.

TENTH PLACE was the team that appeared most likely to be eliminated as CHRISTIE & JODI were outsmarted into taking what they thought was the “earliest” train to Interlaken but turned out to be the one that would arrive later by taking a longer route. They were last at the final task but barely beat PRESTON & JENNIFER who have upheld the tradition of South Carolinians that have been ELIMINATED very early in The Amazing Race.

It has happened in at least two previous seasons where a team from South Carolina was the first team eliminated. I notice this because my family is from The Palmetto State.

But the people of South Carolina should not feel bad for Preston & Jennifer as they will get to spend the longest time at “The Elimination Station” which is basically being held at a hideaway resort vacation spot while everyone else completes the race. So although they won’t win a million dollars, they still get a pretty nice vacation. See the Amazing Race website for details about the “Elimination Station”.

I notice at the pit-stop that the eliminated PRESTON was wearing an AUBURN UNIVERSITY sweatshirt! And he is from South Carolina, home of the GameCOCKS!
So I guess there may be some happy “cocks” over an Auburn loss.

I know a few Auburn fans who might get offended by that, but its just a blog and I am a smart ass!

Finally, I normally save my predictions for elimination for the second or third episode but I can’t help it. I must predict that STEVE & LINDA will be the next team eliminated. We already see that she is slow and very whiny and Steve is a bit of a klutz. I just don’t seem them surviving another leg.

Now will you survive my next Amazing Race expression to be posted next week? I hope you can. I will do my best.

So see you next week, same Amazing Race time, same blogspot channel.