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http://wcbstv.com/watercooler/jon.stewart.trusted.2.1098096.html

In a poll, ran by TIME magazines web site John Stewart was named Americas most trusted news man. That shows you how far down the toilet this country has gone. People cannot tell the deference between the news and a comedy program. Not surprising though considering the shows audience. mostly college age kids whose minds are filled with ignorance from leftest college professors. In other words people who are afraid to speak up and think for themselves for fear of getting a bad grade. This country is starting to become a bad joke.

R.I.P Mark Sanford

In the immortal words of the good reverend, Jeremiah Wright: Mark Sanford got caught "ridin dirty". It's about time too; South Carolina was starting to feel left out. We haven’t had a good sex scandal since Strom Thurman knocked up that black chick. And when was that, like the 50's? Politicians are scum. The only thing shocking about this whole sorred mess is that people are shocked.

I have to admit that I do like Sanford. He has been the best governor in my lifetime. He is what every politician should be, an obstructionist. Unfortunately this little trip to Argentina should do him in politically. I say should because stranger things have happened. DC mayor Marion berry was caught smoking crack with a hooker and is still relevant, in DC anyway. President Bubba was elected twice mainly because of his penchant for receiving head. He may be the next guy to lead the UN.

The most tragic thing to come from this is how far this will set back the reform movement in SC. There is no one in the field that has the stones to stand up to the "good ol boys" in Columbia. And after seeing how even his own party trashed him no one ever will. Having conviction is nice but not at the cost of losing power. And no one in that bunch wants to lose his or her power. So I guess the good people of sc can look forward to another 233 years of business as usual from the same cast of characters. The powers that be in SC are never going to allow a person who wants to rock the boat politically to hold the office of governor. Sanford got close and was destroyed. This is beside the fact that he was caught giving “The Girl From Ipanema” the hot beef injection. He was a political dead man walking. The SC legislator holds a lot of power in this state, to much power for my taste. And the sheeple of the Palmetto State are easily brain washed. Mark Sanford’s main crime (besides slipping his dong inside someone other then Jenny) was pointing out the brainless activities of our elected officials; the wasteful spending, the country club cult like mentality of the state house, and trying to change the status quo.

I have come to expect my elected officials to fail morally. All politicians are inherently bad, evil people. That is why they were politicians. And in the end isn’t that what we want? A blood thirsty, fight for what they believe in, fuck anything that moves, hard ass? Or a limp wristed, go along with the crowd, don’t make any waves, doughboy.

Say what you want about Governor Sanford, but he fought to change the way politics works in this state. I doubt we will ever have someone with the guts to go to war with a system as corrupt as the South Carolina State House again.

The All Barack Channel

ABC is airing its Obama Care infomercial tonight. The powers that be have made it clear that there is to be no counter arguments to what Supreme Leader most merciful Obama has to say. Even going so far as to not allow any groups to run issue based ads that may counter what he has to say. Maybe the right wings kooks are right in saying that the mainstream media has become state run media. This is kind of unprecedented and scary. The opposition is being silenced, I’m sure at the behest of Rohm Emmanuel. Why can’t we have an open and fair debate about health care? Why do they have to kill any dissent before it is even allowed to speak up? Did you people elect a dictator, or a president? If during a press conference, somebody has the gall to ask him a tough question, he throws a temper tantrum. This president is a failure of epic proportions. And if we are not careful he will do damage to this country that cannot be repaired.

The FCC should do an investigation into the practices of ABC, I would encourage all people to file a formal complaint with the FCC. Here is the link.

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

Janes Addiction In Charlotte

Jane's Addiction proved one thing to me Saturday night in Charlotte. Eric Avery is a much more important part of this band then most people care to admit. Lets face it, They suck with out him. The show was awesome and bass player Avery has been missed. I feared that this band would just be a shadow of it's former self, but happily I was wrong. I knew when the lights went out and the opening notes of Three Day's thumped out of Eric's bass that this would be a show for the books. Pulling out songs from Nothings Shocking, The XXX EP, as well as Ritual de lo habitual, every one from the hard core fan to the person who was late to the party on J-A would have left satisfied. Surprisingly Dave Navarro did not act like a douche. He must realise that there is only room for one personality in Janes Addiction, and that job of course goes to Perry Farrell, who is one of the greatest front men of all time. Over all This was a great concert and was the fulfillment of a something I wanted to see every since Monty let me listen to Nothings Shocking in high school. I would highly recommend J-A fans try to catch this show if they bring it back to the US after there European leg.

Slipknot At The BI-LO Center 2-11-09

Loud, aggressive music was the order of the night as the BI-LO Center hosted Slipknot, along with Coheed And Cambria and Trivium. Scaled down to the theater setting, The BI-LO center is a good venue for these types of bands. I only caught one song from Trivium, but I was interested in seeing Coheed as I have heard a lot of buzz surrounding them. Coheed harkins back to the day's of the 80's metal only these guys learned to play there instruments before signing a record deal.
Slipknot is the best mainstream metal band to come out in the past decade. And when I say metal I don't mean faux metal or emo. I mean balls out heavy guitar riff, double bass madness with lyrics that as socially conscious as they are, are not preachy. Staying mostly on there catalog from the past 10 years, most of the song selection came from the bands first 3 albums. stopping only a few times to play some gems off of All Hope Is Gone. I think a lot of ol' school metal heads tend to discount Slipknot because of there success and the use of the masks, but fuck um. With lyrics like; "Fuck it all, Fuck this world, Fuck everything that you stand for, I wouldn't care if they came out wearing tutu's. I wish I could see them tonight in Gwenette, but my Obama stimulus hasn't kicked in yet.

Grammy Review

I only watched the preformances by Paul McCartne, Neil Diamond, and Plant and Krause. Everything else was just drival. Robert Plant and Allison Krause had the best comercial album last year with Rasing Sand and should be a shoe-in for album of the year. None of the other nomminees are even worthie of hocking a loogie in their direction.

And So It Begins.........

At noon today the 44th transfer of power in this country took place. The heavens did not open up, angels on high did not sing and the tides did not stop. No miracles happened. And my advice to you is do not expect any. Like Obama basically said in his inaugural speech today there are dark clouds approaching and there is not anything he can do to stop them. The next 100 days should tell us a lot about the next for years. Will he be the moderate centrist that he proclaimed to be during the campaign? Or will he be the leftist that he has shown to be through out his political career? Will he have the backbone to say no to the traitors Nancy Polosi and Harry Reed? Or will he allow them to run roughshod and destroy our country? Will he have the will to continue the fight against the people who want to kill us because of our arrogant wish to be free? Will he resist the temptations of the special interests groups whose only goals are to do away with the American way of life and replace it with a failed version of European socialism? Important questions; questions that should have been asked a year ago. Oh well at least he doesn’t stutter when he talks. And that was what this election was really all about.

Sadly the future elections are probably going to be based on who will have better entertainment during the inaugural festivities. The biggest story of the week has been all the “celebrities” that showed up. From Bono to The Oprah, all of Hollywood came out to mix with the “common people” to show there support. Remember in these people’s minds, they think they are as important as the inauguration itself.

“Bono is like really, really smart and junk and he said he is supporting Obama so I guess that’s who I have to vote for.”

Sadly that has what it has come down to. Getting the support from talent less singers from other countries and Hollywood dirt bags.

There is no longer a loyal opposition in Washington. The voters of this country gave one party a blank check to do its will. This should scare the living shit out everyone, Democrat/Republican, right wing/left wing even limp wrist moderates who are afraid to take a position. My hope is that the Obama presidency will be bogged down with infighting within the democrat ranks and that no major things get accomplished. Because the government that governs the least governs best.