PORTLANDIA

As you may or may not know there is a current TV series on the IFC Network called PORTLANDIA. What the series does, and does very well, is to satirize the city of Portland Oregon. The funniest thing is that the city does a much better job of unintentionally satirizing itself more than the TV show does. For example the city is currently holding honest-to-goodness real live hearings as to whether or not it should join a Federal Government sponsored ant-terrorist network. The city "leaders" and the population are seriously trying to decide whether it is better to not join and have as many terrorist acts in the city as possible, or join and have to deal with reality. That ladies and gentlemen is Portland's real dilemma should it grow-up and act like an adult or should it just live in the made-up world of fairy tales and hob-goblins?

Club Mordecai

Since the Jewish holiday of Purim is coming up, it occurred to me that Jews are always trying to make this into a "happy" holiday, maybe they should start a Club Mordecai Comedy Club. The Club Mordecai would fulfill two purposes, it would give Jews and Non-Jews a place to laugh at and with each other, and it would give guilt-ridden Jews a place to expunge their religious demons in public. Actually the first stand-up should be Woody Allen, notoriously ambivalent about his Judaism, he could do at least two or three hours of one-liners about how his non-stop psychiatric analysis could have been prevented had he just be given the opportunity to tell one-liners at his Bar Mitzvah instead of having to read the Torah.

What Do We Need Cairo Egypt For ?

What is all the fuss about whats going on in Egypt? I bet you can't name one thing that we need that is made in Egypt. They have no oil, no natural gas, in fact the only thing they make in Egypt are Mummies and I don't think the world needs any more of those !!!.
Also, the Egyptian rioters need a really catchy slogan. Down with Mubarak just doesn't get it !! How about: Up with Mummies !!! or Down with Mubarak Up with his Mummy !!!
Anyhow the Egyptian riots are nowhere near as entertaining as the new TV Show PORTLANDIA on the IFC Channel. When you finally get tired of CNN & all the other cable news networks trying to make the Egyptian riots relevant to you, get your cable TV on and begin watching all the shows ON Demand or on HUlU that's where life really happens.

Random Thinks or Thoughts & Dustbins

I just saw a promo for the new James Cameron movie( maker of AVATAR and Titanic ) Sanctuary. Based on the clip the movie should be renamed Scrotum. And by the way why did it take so long for that damn Titanic to sink in the movie? The movie was way too long, as was the remake of King Kong. It seems that movie-makers are confusing length with content. Just because a movie is extra long doesn't mean its extra enjoyable.
Also whats the big deal that Keith Obermann is leaving MSNBC? Have we finally reached the point where non-news is actually now news?
Will someone please tell me from whom the angry people in this country want to take their country back from? And, why do I have to listen to miscreants like Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann from MN, who casually rewrites history to fit her current warped view of American History. As a fringe candidate for the Presidency, it really irks me to think that she and Sarah Palin get to say whatever they want in public, when they should be relegated to the dustbin of history as soon as possible. We need to speed up the dustbin process not the 24 hour news cycle.

SUGGESTIONS

Some time ago (late October early November 2010)I dropped a suggestion into the Suggestion Box at a local non-profit organization we frequent. Well, the other day 90-120 days after my drop, I received a voice mail from someone at the non-profit. The message began by apologizing for taking to so long to either acknowledge and/or agree with my suggestion, you,can guess where the rest of the message went; thanks for your suggestion but no thanks its not for our organization.
After thinking about the reply, the only thing that occurred to me is Why Do I Bother?

WHAT SOULD BE DONE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC FROM OUR GOVERNMENT

While talking to my daughter I realized that one way the American Public can protect itself from its' government, is to require that all elected politicians drink nothing but NYQUIL all the time. This should effectively keep them inebriated without requiring them to become alcoholics. Once they are permanently inebriated we should be safe from any of their harebrained schemes, since they should be so sloshed they can't stand up long enough to make long winded and pointless speeches. Followed by pointless but surreptitiously dangerous lawmaking. As a side benefit this drinking requirement should also act as a legislative term limiter. After our legislators and politicians, spend enough time drinking NYQUIL they should forget to go to work.

You Have the Right to Be Stuck In Traffic

Some days ago I read a small newspaper article that was a reply to a question about how those Highway On Ramp meters and lights work. It seems that some very smart traffic engineers have spent, what is I assume, a vast amount of the public's money to develop a system that tells drivers already on the on-ramps all around America, that road ahead of them is congested. What the genius traffic engineers didn't do was to place a RED traffic light or a flashing sign that says "Do Not Enter Congested" at the ENTRANCE to the on ramp. That way us dumb drivers, could avoid the congested roadway instead of just getting on, and then finding out the road was blocked or delayed.
This leads me to confirm that the people who design traffic control systems and roadways don't have drivers licenses. Just like the people at GM and CHRYSLER who build cars never drive them.