Katrina, Media, Christ, Baseball, Iraq

The media, like a pack of hungry dogs, is predictably going after the one-year anniversary of the Katrina disaster as if it were the last piece of rotten meat on the block. This comes on the heel of flicking John Mark Karr, the confessing killer of someone else with three names Jon Benet Ramsey, into surly, sordid and soiled ashbin of American media. When will this cycle of media bulimia and anorexia fasting ever end? “Let’s chew on this beef jerky, call it filet mignon, and regurgitate it ‘till it forms acid ulcers in our stomachs before we discharge it for the next piece of rotten flesh.”

There are real stories. They are the elephants that nobody wants to speak of. That’s true of an Ohio couple I sat next to last night at a Dodger’s game. They were nice folks. But then they began name dropping. “Oh, the Vice President has visited our town twice.” “Our friend works for President Bush.” I guess these are some of the people that represent that 10% of people who still think Bush is a good guy.

In their middle-America way, they did ask about things that many Angelinos don’t utter. “They’re aren’t a lot of white people in Los Angeles.” “What do think about the immigrant problem?”

At least they asked real questions, but gushing about Bush is like gushing about John Mark Karr being a salt-of-the-earth kind of guy. You might as well just fly over the desert called the regurgitating media who amplifies lies so that you can’t hear the truth or just fly over the Katrina disaster that Bush did. The GOP are idiots. Invading Iraq was stupid. I’d venture to say that by now everyone has seen an Iraq vet who’s begging for food on the streets and if you haven’t, you will soon. How many of those vets will end up being on America’s most wanted? How many of them will go on to commit murder? Oh well, at least it’s good business for the people who build prisons (Halliburton) because after all that’s really a Christ-like business to be involved with, isn’t?

Speaking of Christ, the Colorado Rockies are seeking only Christ-like players. (Not) coincidentally Colorado is one of the six teams as of July 16, 2006 that “had no black players on their active rosters.” It’s doubtful if that trend will change by looking at the Little League teams from the United States over the past week. While ESPN was displaying the exclusion of blacks from baseball, it was also exploiting the same Little Leaguers.

It seems that the little league or more apropos the little estate may be the name for the media. Terri Schiavo and Jeff Gannon are the mice we digest while up to 45,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the start of the war. Osama bin Laden is still free. Personal bankruptcies, poverty, the price of gas, the cost of education is up, the standard of living is down and we are just now sitting down at the table to start to rebuild Katrina?

Municipal Error Watch

I'm all for fighting the bad guys, but in our current political climate, everyone is assumed guilty before innocent.

The Dennis Miller types would scream, "Yeah, man, but we're like fighting a war on terror, don't you get it?"

Lovely. For those of you who grew up in the world before you destroyed it and enjoyed unfettered youth, narcisism, and sarcasim, you pass on your backwash to us.

Take back your Super Sized Big Gulps and make sure to gulp before you gurgle.

What prompts my annoyance?

In order to enjoy the "Great Outdoors" -- Los Angeles style today -- my companion and I decided to see "Lake Hollywood."

We started off on a nice walk and came upon the bridge the crosses one of the reservoirs. The bridge itself looked like a fence tunnel as a fence encompassed us as we walked across. I thought, "Wow, what a great place to take a picture" with the backdrop of the Hollywood Hills.

Just as I said that a local municipal water police guy asserted his authority as he is helping "fight terrorism."

Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's doing his job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's 'just' doing his job. But where is our sense of humanity? Are we really all Pavlov dogs or do we have a choice how we want to fight the bad guys of the time?