What is wrong with these people???!!!!

Shameful.

Tinkerbell

I get it.

Things change.

Everyone wants to improve and put their own stamp on traditional things, be it in business or on cartoon charactors.

But c'mon.

Seriously Disney? Seriously?

This most recent version of a much beloved Tinkerbell looks like a .... um no, I don't want to say that.... let's just say she doesn't look like she's going to be sprinkling fairy dust and waving her magic wand to make any little girls dreams come true any time soon.

This Land Is Your Land

Today I saw an article about a new Roseanne Cash album entitled The List.

You can read it here:

http://www.spinner.com/2009/10/08/rosanne-cash-keeps-the-rest-of-the-list-private?icid=mainhp-desktopdl2link4http%3A%2F%2F

The tracks on this album are songs that were on a list compiled by her Dad, Johnny Cash, of what he considered to be 100 essential country songs. She received this list when she turned 18 in 1973 and until this album was released she has never made any of the list public.

In the piece I was reading, she spoke about how hard it was to decide which songs to include on her album but clearly didn't have the same problem when deciding what songs she didn't value.

She said,"They were too gender specific or they were too much of a period piece, and I couldn't do another version of 'This Land Is Your Land.' You know what I mean?"

It's probably a really good thing I don't make my living as an interviewer.

Celebrities wouldn't like me very much.

Especially if they asked me a rhetorical question like:
"You know what I mean? "

If Roseanne Cash had asked me that question, I would have had to respond:

"No Roseanne, I don't know what you mean.

I look around and see my country, that I love, so ripped apart and polarized.

I think it would be a great idea for a singer/star of your caliber to record an album of songs that might make people stop and at least for a moment remember that we are all in this together.

You could invite artists of every kind to join you and call it

America Aid.

Instead gathering donations for one cause or another, you and others of such great talent could and should do it to lift the spirits of a weary nation."

Some 'period pieces' are timeless.


THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie

Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

Chorus

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

Chorus

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

I love people who love what they do!!

What the heck... I'll blame the Yankees for this too...

doing plenty of wondering today

This video makes me wonder...

Why it is that the people who seem to hate government most vocally, or claim to 'not need government' in their lives because they, among other reasons, previously had a successful career as a Federal tax attorney before being elected are even in Politics...

It's a paradox indeed.

I'm wondering....

Since NASA has developed instruments that can probe the surface of Mars for water, why do we have to 'bomb' (media's term not mine, but very effective) the moon tomorrow looking for the same thing?

Anyone care to try and explain the difference to this layperson who just likes to look at the sky?

Hilarious Mr Mayor Who Might or Might Not Want To Be Governor

From Twitter:

MayorRTRybak Proposed bet with Mayor Bloomberg/ Yankees win:He gets basket of Honeycrisps. Twins win:He pays my daughter's tuition at Columubia U(in NYC)about 1 hour ago from web

I'll take progress where I find it....

In south Minneapolis this afternoon, there was a protest rally planned by a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Movement.

This group was protesting an anti-racism workshop that was being held at the YWCA.

From the local paper's website tonight (bolding is mine):

After standing on the street south of the YWCA for about 30 minutes, the neo-Nazis --all four members -- were escorted to their car by Minneapolis police officers, followed by the 200 counter protesters.

Score one for the good guys.

Dear Mr. Letterman

• Dear Mr. Letterman,
  
  I guess it’s a good thing to be you.
  
  Not every boss who commits sexual harassment by bedding the young, starry eyed members of their staff is lucky enough to be employed in an work culture so acceptably hostile that another equal opportunist seriously expects that you will pay to maintain their silence.
  
  You had the power to stop this person in their tracks from using you Mr. Letterman, because you are the top, the cream of the crop.
  
  The same power you held over your employees.
  
  What chance did your staffers have of stopping you?
  
  I listened to your ’confession’ last night Mr. Letterman and while it was admirable that you claimed that you wanted to protect your family and the women involved, I found myself wondering why were you not protecting your family and the women before unzipping your fly?
  
  Why did it only matter when it might become public and should anyone really believe it matters to you now?
  
  What is it that makes women have so little meaning to you?
  
  I’m certain each woman had more value than what you assigned to them. Each one was at the very least someone’s daughter and possibly sister, mother, wife/girlfriend or just plain friend.
  
  I gave you more credit Mr. Letterman and it appears that my ‘prick meter’ needs a new battery.
  
  I wish I could join with others who, in the anonymity of the Internet are :

• Feeling the pain you feel as a victim of circumstances or
• Justifying that you were just doing what what people in power do or
• Dragging in politics and that it’s somehow Sarah Palin karma paying you back.
  
  
  Sorry, I can’t.
  
  I’m just too angry.
  
  I hope tonight you don’t thank viewers for their support. Of course, if you do, I won’t know about it. Not that it matters to you but I won’t be watching.
  
  Not tonight, not tomorrow, never again.