The Tea on Sarah Palin or I'm a coffee guy

Watched her speak at The Tea Party convention. I feel more confident that ever that this woman will never get anywhere near The White House. The reason I have this new found confidence is because I have more faith in my friends and family who are Republican. I know them to be caring intelligent people who could not possibly fall for such transparent tactics. Here are ten reasons why I am not worried about Palin based on this one speech

#1 Palin excels at preaching to the choir. In a room full of supporters she has to do little more than insult the president and spew rhetoric. This keeps her base happy but will not gain her any new support, which she needs if she is to become a serious contender. The average independent on the fence needs substance, which she sorely lacks.

#2 At some point Palin will have to appear on Meet The Press. That's a whole lot different than a fox News softball job. I have no doubt in my mind that my cat Rocky could do better handling real intellectual questions than Palin can, and my cat rocky has been dead for like 30 years.

#3 Palin criticized Obama for reaching out to our enemies instead of destroying them. She has stated on more than one occasion that God has put her in this position for a reason. If Jesus was here how would he deal with our enemies? By trying to understand and dialogue with them to avoid war and death or by destroying them? Even though I have not seen the inside of a church in the 21st century I know enough about Christianity to know what side of this debate Jesus would be on.

#4 Sarah Palin has proven over and over that she doesn't think so good.

#5 Hypocrisy rules the hour. Criticizes Obama for reading a teleprompter as she reads her notes written on her hand. I tried that shit in Mrs Esteps 12 grade govt class, it didn't work there either. The word retard is only offensive when uttered by a democrat.

#6 She wants to declare war with Iran. Iran is a more sophisticated than Iraq Again, thank god for all my reasonable intelligent Republican kin. Yeah another war is just what this country needs.

#7 She doesn't seem to really know what she is saying. She has a inconsistent views and no answers for problems. Just silly sound bites that when played back make no sense.

#8 She shoots moose from helicopters. This will ensure she never gets the vote from the Rocky and Bullwinkle fans and I looked...hella Rocky and Bullwinkle fan sites Sarah.

#9 She accepted 100k for this appearance. Tickets to the event were 500 bucks. remember these are the fiscal conservatives right?

#10 She is a liar. In one breath she criticized the Obama administrations handling of the attempted handling of the Christmas day underwear bomber, saying this showed bad judgment on this administrations part even though the rules followed were those set up by the previous (Republican) administration.

Not only that, this was the Tea Bag convention. We are a coffee nation. Off the top of my head I can name Folgers, Maxwell House Tasters Choice 8 o clock...I can't name a Tea off the top of my head.

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Grammy Review 2010

OK before I say a thing I have to say this: Does anyone else see the crazy starting to form and ooze out of Michael Jackson's churen? And yes I know i spelled Children Churen. Prince Michael seems to be channeling a post hobbit Elijah Wood and daughter Paris...well she stepped to the mike and I believe she said "Daddy really wanted to perform this song but couldn't be here because he's dead" or something to that effect. I know they are only kids and they just lost a parent so I should not be making fun but they are really really rich kids with Janet Jackson as an Auntie so I don't feel so bad.

Anyway....I watched, I laughed, I changed the channel to BBC to watch "The Birds" during the country music portion of the show (sorry), I folded cloths and I jotted down a few thoughts on the back of a paper plate that earlier that evening had pizza on it.Because that's how I live:

* I still don't get the whole Taylor Swift thing. Every time I see her up to bat on one of these things she never delivers. Her duet with Stevie Nicks was embarrassing to both. Nicks seemed to rise above the situation but Swift sounded horrible. I'm sure Taylor Swift is a sweet girl, but so is my dentist's Secretary.

* While I'm on the subject the announcer before the break said and I quote "coming up next, the Grammy for best pop vocal performance. Will Taylor Swift beat her Elders?" I'm sure Beyonce's mama cussed some Grammy producer out for that.

* Although Pink did a similar high wire act during the MTV video awards it was actually more effective here. Plus their was no Kanye to steal her thunder 5 mins later. Great performance.

* I need to remember to get dish detergent after work tomorrow. Not washing dishes for this many days has to be violating some type of city ordinance.

* Whats the deal with the 3d? I have no desire to see a 89 year old Smokey Robinsons liver spots coming at me in an extra demension.

* Bridge Over Troubled Water performed by Mary J Blige and Andrea Bocelli was my favorite performance of the evening. Dave Mathews was a close second.

* Nice to see Beyonce at one of these events. She is so under exposed.

* Drake continues underwhelm. File him and Taylor under apathetic. Is Travis Barker bound by contract to play drums for any and every hip hop artist that perform at these awards shows?

*The Grammys usually feel anticlimactic after the much more energetic and young MTV music awards. This year producers seemed to realize this and focused on music as opposed to spectacle and it pretty much worked. I give it a B

Eight is Enough family secrets

Eight Is Enough was my shit. Not only did it have a family with 8 kids, not only were they liberal (you would never see Jan Brady getting caught with some pot, or going on the pill like the Bradford girls did) but the show came on at 8pm on Weds making in Charlies Angels lead in show for almost 4 years. Whats not to love? Something about this show got me when I was a kid. As i got older and started researching it origins I became fascinated with not only the show but the real life family that the show was based on. So lets talk about both in a series of "Bet ya didn't know"

The Real Life "Bradford's" were based on real life Newspaper columnist, Crossfire co-host Thomas Braden. Braden was famous for being an ex CIA agent, ultra liberal Kennedy aid and buying the The Blade-Tribune with a loan he received from Nelson Rockefeller. He married his wife Joan who became a prominent Washington Hostess and assistant to Jackie Kennedy. Joan actually ghost wrote a column for Jackie on the trials and tribulations on being a Washington wife. The Braden's had Eight Kids and eventually he wrote a book "Eight is Enough". The children's real life names and ages were used for the show David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth and Nicholas. In her autobiography Joan stated they had an open marriage, and suggested she was one of JFK's many lovers! Those Eight is enough folks are wild!!







Real Life Bradford's "The Braden's" same names and age order as their tv counterparts





Now the TV family was almost as scandalous as the real life Braden's. The show was cast in 76 and a pilot was shot. Mark Hamil was cast as oldest brother David but he had also begun work on a little move called Star Wars. After the pilot David was re-cast as was Tommy and Nancy. That's right teen heartthrob Willie Ame's was not in the pilot. So the show took off but after only 4 episodes were shot the actress (Diana Hyland) who played the mother started losing her battle with Cancer. She was in her 40's dating a 20 something John Travolta whom she co-starred with in The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. Ms Hyland died 12 days after the first ep aired leaving the family minus a mother. Luckily Betty Buckly fresh off "Carrie" and Broadways Cats joined the cast as step mom to be Abby.




Travolta and Hyland 1977




That's a LOT of drama for both the real life Braden's and their TV counterparts. Of course it didn't end there. Eight Is Enough was notorious for having cast drug problems (especially Willie Ames,Adam Rich and Susan Richardson) Richardson claims to have been kidnapped by some Korean filmmakers and forced to act in a move (wtf?) and Oldest daughter Mary (Lani O Grady) died of a drug overdose a few years ago. The actress that played 2nd oldest daughter Joanie (Laurie Walters) was actually older than all the kids and the same age as her tv step mom Abby! Ames went on to Charles In Charge, Adam rich went on to various stints in Rehab and most of the others faded into obscurity. Ironically the actor who probably fared the best was a late addition, Ralph machio, who joined in season 5 in a desperate attempt to save the show went onto star as the Karate Kid. That had to piss Tommy and Elizabeth off.

I loved me some Eight is Enough when I was a kid. I liked the way the kids acted toward each other, like actual siblings. The Bradford kids were smarter than the Partridge family and edgier than the Brady Bunch. I loved them before I found out all the dirt behind the scenes. This new info simply makes me love them more.