Bluntness

I've also been told I have little tact, so if this offends you simply ride on.
Showing posts with label Bob. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2018

The reality is...

Well, it's Thursday and I have the day off.  I slept late today.  Didn't get up until 0530.  Even the dogs snoozed along with me.
One of the nice options that comes with the upgraded Starlink packaged I subscribed to is the ability to turn on the windshield defroster.  This means no more having to scrape the frost from the windshield in the mornings... that's if I remember to use it.  I'm sure I will.  And I've also begun to go through the owner's manuals.  Most of the stuff is familiar.  Dealing with some of the apps in the Navigation system is a bit different, but not much.
I saw that Ty Herndon has a new album being released on November 11.  He's an Out country singer.  I actually owned one of his discs a long time ago.  What makes this sort of interesting is that I saw him 'live' at the Zembo.


I've been there several times for concerts and once for a Christmas Party.  Very Moorish.


In fact, the Zembo is one of 3 geographic locations in which scenes were set in "The Body on the Lawn."  Can't you just hear Lelani babbling on about the 'Moorish tiles?'  And I did see Ty at a Bob birthday bash.


Fiction should always have a touch of reality, and one of the building blocks I used in my foundation was the Zembo.
Another reality is the October Surprise.  It turns out it wasn't Kavanaugh, or the stock market losing everything it had gained in 2018, or even the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.  Nope.  The October Surprise is much more ugly than that.  It's reality is based in terror.  Pipe Bombs.  This is the ugly face of the Idiot Jerk in the White House and those miscreants who worship him.  At his rallies he has consistently hammered home hatred for Democrats.  He calls them an evil mob and his acolytes cheer.  He shrieks how Liberals will destroy everything the Evangelicals hold so dear, and they bow their heads to him in prayer.  And, like a true Republican he blames the media.  People are seeing how big of a shit bag he truly is, proving he is really nothing more than an embarrassment to humanity.   Both he and his party need to be stripped of power.


Friday, March 1, 2013

Bob Woodward's temper tantrum.

There seems to be quite a bit of finger pointing going on right now between Bob Woodward and the White House.  Just what it's about, I don't really know.  Personally, I suspect it's just Woodward throwing a petulant, little fit.  Why do I say this?  The more I read about him the more I understand how there is something in his ego which shrieks "I need to be an icon... no, I need to be something more!"  Just like pop musicians who know the need of having a good hook to sell a song, he knows he needs to have a good line to hook an audience.  Unfortunately for him, however, ever since the Bush administration his writing seems to be more "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."  I became aware of this way back when in one of his books about Bush he quoted the president as saying "I go to my higher father for advice," or something like that.  I remember the first time I read that all I could say was Holy Shit.  I was so surprised Bob Woodward was pandering to the Republican base.  For quite some time after that, it seemed as if you couldn't turn on the television without seeing Woodward's smiling face.  I'm sure he sold quite a few books to social conservatives who, up until that point, never gave him a second thought.  It was at that moment I realized he was less concerned about journalism then he was with ego.

Not really invited to the party

While he has published "Obama's Wars," it wouldn't surprise me if this administration is not as Woodward friendly as he wants it to be.  Of course, Bush was only popular among his base where as Obama has an obvious consensus among a majority of the voters.  Bush needed Woodward, Obama doesn't.  There's a party going on in the White House and Bob wasn't invited as the guest of honor, more like the busboy.  Now there is this little, pissy shit war going on between Woodward and and the White House. Dig deep enough and I suspect you'll find the root cause is the small bones the administration has been throwing to him.  One hundred years from now Bob Woodward does not want to be one more forgotten journalist, just a foot note in time.