The next right-wing political bimbo in the U.S.?
I vistied CNN’s website to see what the reaction to Lou Dobb’s resignation was like and I stumbled across this video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2009/11/11/lkl.prejean.upset.cnn
Apparently, she is or was Miss California and I have hazy recollections of her remarks about gay marriage or something. Anyway, she appeared on Larry King Live but walked out after he asked her ‘inappropriate’ questions as to why she settled out of court with the pageant after she initiated a law-suit alleging religious discrimination. King’s question was an interesting one: he wanted to ask why she settled instead of pursuing the lawsuit which, I guess, she said was a matter of principle and religious freedom. Perhaps she didn’t understand the question but I suspect the whole thing was a pre-planned publicity stunt. She apparently has a book out (whoa, can’t wait to read that!) and she started the interview saying she admired Sarah Palin and that she, like Palin and another wack-job Michele Bachmann, have been attacked by the liberal, left-wing media. It would seem to make sense because walking out on an interview with a mainstream media elite journalist like Larry King would work well with the Fox-Tea-bagger crowd. Oh wait… she didn’t storm or even walk off. Around the middle of the video, she nods to someone off screen (probably her publicist or political handler) and takes off her microphone and then… just… sits there (???).
At any rate, it appears to me we have yet another bimbo who wants to break into the ranks of Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, Michele Bachmann, and that skinny blonde anorexic woman whose name escapes me at the moment, to become another right-wing hot chick who is willing to make up and say virtually anything in order to rile up the troops.
*Sigh*
It really is depressing to see where U.S. politics is headed and I am not just blaming the right as there are plenty of ‘whack-jobs’ on the left as well. When that country is, in all liklihood, facing the beginning of the end of its empire and global hegemony and faces such daunting problems, it is people like this that tend to get the most airplay.
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Sometimes…
a person just does not have anything to say to the world.
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Ding dong….
Ding Dong! The Freak is dead. Which strange Freak? The megalomaniac Freak!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Freak is dead.
Wake up – sleepy heads, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Freak is dead. He’s gone where the boy-diddlers go,
Below – below – below. Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The King of Freaks is dead!
Sometimes I marvel at the world
I recently went looking for a quote I had read some years ago. I suspected it was from an essay in either Harper’s Magazine or the Atlantic Magazine. The quotation came from a young American woman who told the author of the essay that she always assumed Jesus was an American. After a quick web search (I was a little astounded how many results for “Jesus was an American” came up), I quickly located it:
Some years ago, at the University of California, San Diego, a young woman raised her hand in the middle of a seminar I was then teaching on the first century of Rome and the dawn of the Christian Era. She seemed genuinely disturbed by something. “I know you’re all going to think this is crazy,” she said, “but I always thought Jesus was an American.”
A lovely moment. What she had articulated, as succinctly as I had ever heard it articulated, was the spirit behind three and a half centuries of American history: America as an elect nation, the world-redeeming ark of Christ, chosen, above all the nations of the world, for a special dispensation. What she had expressed, with an almost poetic compaction, was the core myth of America.
Mark Slouka, “A Year Later: Notes on America’s intimations of mortality,” Harper’s Magazine, Sept. 2002, p. 36.
At my age, I have come to realize that I surely do not understand much about this earth and its people. The fact that a young college student would honestly believe that the historical figure of Jesus was an American says a lot I guess about the ‘world’s only superpower’ and its myth-making, its education system, its sense of inherent exceptionalism, and its overall culture. I am still dumbfounded by this quote and still am not sure just what to make of it… but thought I should share.
I just deleted my Facebook account…. yay!!
After many weeks where anoyance with Facebook (and even the whole social-networking phenomenon) has been growing within me… I finally looked into deleting my account. As it turns out, it is not so easy. One can ‘deactivate’ his or her account but it still remains and, you are informed, that unless you check a specific box, your will still get notices and emails. So, I guess Facebook has a different definition of ‘deactivate’ than what shows up in standard dictionaries.
On the ‘deactivate’ page, there is a prominent text box asking if you are ‘deactivating’ your account because of the recent discussions surrounding Facebook’s change to their Terms of Service which, Facebook helpfully points out, are erronious and based on misunderstandings. What happened was that Facebook tried to implement a new Terms of Service, where they stated they now owned all the material people post (including photos, messages), and there was a large user backlash. Facebook backed down and went back to the old Terms of Service to prevent a PR nightmare from unfolding and then pasted messages all over their site stating how luvvy-duvvy Facebook is and how utterly democratic Facebook is. Which is odd because ‘deactivating’ your Facebook account only means that you will not use it any more but Facebook will continue to use it… mostly likely for marketing purposes and, of course, so that they can continue to state that they indeed do still have 150 million users worldwide.
But I did find this link on a wiki somehwere (of course, it was not locatable by putting the words ‘delete’ and ‘account’ into the Facebook search box… hmmm, interesting).
So, to delete your Facebook account go to:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account
The above link will allow you to delete your account. The account is not immediately deleted but only ‘deactivated’ and you are given a 14 day grace period where you can think it over. Rest assured Mr. Zuckerberg, I will not be coming back and you better delete all my personal information from your servers in 14 days.