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Posted on 06.22.09 by Danny Glover @ 8:26 pm
He also tells a young reader to follow his dream of being a newsman because there will always be a need for hard-hitting exposes on topics like … how President Obama killed a fly. Filed under: Just For Laughs and Media and News & Politics and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.22.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:19 pm
Back in 1989, the award-winning country group Alabama recorded “Song Of The South,” a ballad that celebrated economic recovery during the Great Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a hero. Here’s a sample:
Those lyrics came to mind today as I watched this JibJab animated video mocking President Obama as the hero that is going to save America in our time. Filed under: History and Just For Laughs and Music and News & Politics and People and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.22.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:00 pm
I’ve never been a fan of “American Idol,” but like Don Surber, I do appreciate a man like “Idol” judge Simon Cowell who speaks his mind, come what may. I appreciate him even more after reading that he is a fan of “family entertainment” and doesn’t like to hear cussing on television.
Perhaps I should give “American Idol” a chance, or at least Simon Cowell. Despite his British accent and proper ways, he’s definitely enlightened redneck material. Filed under: Culture and Entertainment and Human Interest and People Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 06.20.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:29 pm
West Virginia is without a doubt the greatest state in the union. Nine years ago while serving as the associate editor of the now-defunct online magazine IntellectualCapital.com, I penned an essay that retold the fascinating, and technically illegal, story of how the state came to be. Today, on West Virginia’s 106th birthday, as I sit before my father’s computer in my hometown, I tell that story again, as reprinted from the June 22, 2000, issue of IC. Happy Birthday, West Virginia! Every month when I pen this historical essay looking at “Congress Back Then” for IC, I have one goal in mind: Cast the congressional news of today in the context of the past to show readers the “big picture” of American policy and politics. In the spirit of George Santayana’s familiar warning about history, I aim to remind us of the mistakes of our forebears to keep us from repeating them. This month, in writing about the creation of my home state of West Virginia, I have no such higher purpose. I am simply availing myself of the columnist’s prerogative to write about whatever he chooses. Oh, I do have a news peg: West Virginia celebrated its 137th birthday on Tuesday. But that is really just an excuse to write about a topic dear to my heart. Fortunately for IC readers, the story of West Virginia’s birth, coming as it did in the heart of the Civil War and under constitutionally questionable circumstances, is an engaging one, as Granville Davisson Hall made quite clear in his 1901 book The Rending of Virginia: A History. “To carve a new state out of an old one … in the midst of a civil war threatening the existence of the Union itself,” Hall wrote, “was a task as serious as any people ever had to confront.” Filed under: Government and History and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 3:39 pm
Congress can’t consider major legislation with someone trying to tack pork onto it. The leading Senate bill to impose a government option for health care is no exception: Eating pork is supposed to be good for your health. That must be the thinking behind the porky projects Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming found in pending healthcare legislation. … The healthcare bill also includes a “Community Makeover Program” to spend up to $10 per person for beautifying streets in select locales. Coming soon to a Pennsylvania township near you — the John Murtha Yellow Brick Road. Maybe Uncle Sam could get Ty Pennington of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” to make a reality series based on the program. Those are excerpts from my blog post for American Issues Project yesterday. Read it all. While you’re there, read my post about nuclear energy from earlier in the week, “The Nuclear Option.” Filed under: Blogging and Government and News & Politics and People Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 06.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 1:39 pm
At the start of the year, I chastised Washington Post blogger Dan Froomkin for what I perceived to be a double standard in how he approached his job as a White House watchdog. Yesterday, Froomkin learned that the Post will not renew his contract to write “White House Watch” because “interest in the blog also diminished.” As someone who endured two layoffs within a year and is now serving in a temporary job during hard economic times, I hate to see anyone lose his job. But I believe Froomkin, a liberal, hastened the demise of his own blog when he wondered aloud whether he should be less skeptical of President Obama than he was President Bush, a relatively conservative president. His lack of coverage of Obama’s firing of a supposedly independent inspector general provides evidence that he has been doing just that. Read my thoughts on Froomkin at On Target, the blog of Accuracy In Media. Filed under: Blogging and Media and News & Politics and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:53 pm
I don’t like my first name (Keith), and I’d rather not be called a “racist devil” or “piece of trash” by people who confuse me with actor Danny Glover, who shares my nickname. But never have I gone ballistic because someone used my given name, nickname or any variation of it. Poor Elizabeth (Don’t Call Me Liz!) Becton, the scheduler for Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., can’t say the same. She totally lost it when a woman trying to arrange a meeting called her Liz. When the assistant wrote back with an apology, Becton turned up the heat. “I do not go by Liz. Where did you get your information?” she asked. The back-and-forth went on for 19 e-mails, with the assistant apologizing six times if she had “offended” Becton, while Becton lectured about name-calling. Becton told the assistant that if someone said using “Liz” was acceptable, then “they are not your friend”, and “If I wanted you to call me by any other name, I would have offered that to you.” Plus, it’s “rude when people don’t even ask permission and take all sorts of liberties with your name,” she said, adding: “Please do not ever call me by a nickname again.” The outburst cost Ms. Becton not only the embarrassment of a national story about her unhinged behavior but a forced apology on behalf of her employer — and the scorn of Politico readers. My favorite comment: “Settle down, Liz. You sound like a sack full of crazy.” The story reminds me of Dan Montgomery from my high school days. He was adamant that no one call him Danny because that is a boy’s name, and he was a man. So we called him “Dan, the Man.” I always found his anti-Danny tirades particularly amusing when he ranted in my presence. I was such a child back then — and still am because I answer to the name Danny. Filed under: Family and Government and Human Interest and Just For Laughs and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:10 pm
The cult of Craigslist gets its own theme song, courtesy of Weird Al Yankovich. What Jack Humphrey said: “Craigslist has truly arrived. When Weird Al makes a Doors-inspired melody about your site, there’s really nothing left to do but cash checks and wait for Google to buy.” (Hat tip to Outside The Beltway) Filed under: Entertainment and People and Technology and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:16 am
This Chicago Tribune cartoon from the heart of the depression in 1934 has been making the rounds online the past few months because it is even more relevant today than it was then:
How ironic that Chicago gave us a president who is the poster child of big spending. Filed under: Government and History and Media and News & Politics Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.17.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:26 am
You’ve heard the phrase “scarred for life.” That’s what I think of tattoos. Enlightened rednecks, not old squares, want nothing to do with them. We know that one day, perhaps sooner than expected, a tattooed body would make us say something like this: “I cannot go out on to the street, I am so embarrassed. I just look ugly, a freak, mutilated.” Too bad that teenage girl didn’t think about that before she decided to let the “freak” in the video scar her body for life. I’m with Don Surber — the tattoo artist’s side of the story is way more believable. There’s no way someone sleeps while getting 56 stars burned into the skin of her face. Plus a mere three stars would have made her look freaky. Filed under: An Enlightened Redneck ... and Human Interest and Parenting and Video Comments: 4 Comments |
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Posted on 06.16.09 by Danny Glover @ 7:07 pm
As president, Barack Obama has done nothing but spend money the U.S. government doesn’t have. But that’s OK. The island nation of Vanuatu has coined new money in his image.
We can use it to stimulate the economy, run Government Motors, fund the government option for health care and save us all from the global warming induced by cow farts. Or we can all move to Vanuatu once Obama has destroyed the economy here. Parting though: Vanuatu sounds an awful lot like Xanadu, don’t ya think? What was it that Olivia Newton-John sang about that fantasy world? Filed under: Coin Collecting and Entertainment and Human Interest and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.16.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:39 am
Man is usually the target of police abuses of power, but man’s best friend is under fire these days, too — literally. Policeman are killing family pets right and left, often without good reason. From Hit & Run, a blog that might be more aptly named Shoot & Run for this troubling story:
I tend to give policemen the benefit of the doubt when it comes to sensational allegations of abuse, and I defend them when troublemakers with cameras get in their faces. But there really is no defense for many of these attacks on dogs. Unless a dangerous dog is attacking a police officer or threatening to do so, there is no reason to pull a weapon. If a tiny dog attacks, a stick or a kick can do wonders to end it. There’s no need for the ongoing glut of “puppycide” by police forces across the country. Filed under: Human Interest and News & Politics and Pets Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 12:08 pm
Those are the kinds of insights you’ll glean from the Elvis Presley Legacy Project under way at Elvis’ Graceland home. The Knoxville News Sentinel in Tennessee has the story:
My only Elvis story is a depressing one. I was a huge fan of his from a young age. He performed in Charleston, W.Va., once when I was 9, and I desperately wanted to go but couldn’t convince my parents to get tickets. Elvis died a year later. I still remember where I was when I heard the news. We were traveling home from my grandfather’s house in the country when the news report came across the radio. I was devastated because I knew I would never get to see “The King of Rock ‘N Roll.” Filed under: Entertainment and Human Interest and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.13.09 by Danny Glover @ 2:27 pm
Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 85th birthday — yes, 85th — by jumping out of an airplane again, something he has done for previous special occasions as well. Sounds like something an enlightened redneck would do … but not this one. Watch the video of the presidential skydive via CNN: Filed under: Human Interest and People and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.11.09 by Danny Glover @ 5:41 pm
India is home to the smallest girl in the world. Her name is Jyoti Amge, and at age 15, she is less than two feet tall and weights just 12 lbs. She attends school with her age group. Doctors said she won’t get any taller because of her condition, which is called pituitary dwarfism. Click the picture or this link to read the rest of the story and see more fascinating pictures.
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