We barkin' like a Mongolian Mongoose, Torn Slatterns and Nugget Ranchers
Roseanne Barr is now blaming her racist tweets on Ambien. Apparently when someone told her to take the high road, she thought they meant blame it on being high.
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Roseanne Barr lost her show, re-runs and her agent. To put that in perspective, remember the rabbit snatched by an eagle while in the jaws of a fox? He did not lose his agent.
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Starbucks has decided to cancel the launch of their new "Roseanne" Supreme White Vanilla Latte.
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The Houston Rockets set an NBA record for missing 27 three-point shots. After the game, four of them missed the door to their bus.
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Roseanne Barr tweeted a comparison between Valerie Jarrett and the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes." That is shocking. I had no idea Roseanne Barr knew what the Muslim Brotherhood was.
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In Texas at a Vanilla Ice concert, a fan cartwheeled and fell off the stage but left under her own power. Isn't that amazing? There was a Vanilla Ice concert? And there was a fan?
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"Here is all you have to do. Go to a Padres game and sing the National Anthem again only this time on your knee. In blackface."
- Tom Arnold helping Roseanne Barr spin her image problem.
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Just took an Ambien now I have an unholy desire to tweet that my neighbor's labradoodle is a mutt.
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Yale beat Duke to win the NCAA title for lacrosse. It was a hard-fought game. At one point, a fight broke about between the player's butlers and chauffeurs.
Yale beat Duke for the NCAA lacrosse championship. The trash talking was brutal;
"Say there, athletic combatant, your proclivity to end a sentence with a preposition is downright obtuse."
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ABC is going to replace "Roseanne" with specials like "Paula Deen's Halloween," "Louis C.K.'s Tinder Dates" and "Happy Hour with Bill Cosby."
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Kim Kardashian met with Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform. Awkward moment when it became clear Kim thought incarceration was a form of car racing.
Since you asked:
Roseanne Barr proved the problem, once again, is celebrities being too stupid to comment on politics.
It is not liberals, it is not conservatives, it is the uneducated. It is insecurity. It is the uninformed. It is ego needing to be heard without any merit.
Again, it is not about liberal or conservative. It is about stupid.
Ben Affleck has an Academy Award for writing a screenplay, “Good Will Hunting.” The problem? Ben didn’t write one word of it, William Goldman did, so people think Ben is smart. And yet Affleck went on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and argued vociferously in defense of ISIS.
Ben Affleck is considered a smart, politically savvy celebrity. Ben Affleck is just plain stupid.
(See: Phoenix back tattoo. See: "Gigli" )
Roseanne Barr had a tragic childhood. She grew up poor and secretly Jewish in Utah and, while she might have been home-schooled, there is no indication she ever went to any school let alone high school.
At 16, Roseanne was hit by a car and suffered a traumatic head injury so severe that it changed her behavior so radically she had to be institutionalized in the Utah State Mental Hospital. While in that Draconian nightmare, at 16, Roseanne had a baby she gave up for adoption.
That is about as tragic as a childhood can be. That is not Roseanne's fault, on the contrary, Roseanne deserves all the credit in the world for becoming successful in spite of all that horror.
Roseanne Barr has had virtually no education and a serious brain injury and yet, because she had a few good high-pitched, whiny jokes about her slovenly feminine hygiene, she was making $40 mil. a year in 1997.
Not in anyone's list of top 100 comedians, Roseanne Barr truly won the celebrity lottery.
So when someone who had a successful show talks about politics, people listen. As a society, we assign so much value to fame and fortune, we clearly attribute to it qualities that are not there, like political astuteness.
Lest we not forgot, Roseanne Barr is the same person who falsely accused her parents of sexual abuse. When her parents were crestfallen and vehemently denied it, Roseanne admitted, 20 years later, she was lying. (When she retracted that most awful of all lies possible on "Oprah," Roseanne also put the blame on prescription drugs)
Believe me when I say I am not good at much, but I am a good judge of character. And the character of Roseanne Barr I saw at the La Jolla Comedy Store in 1986, bombing horribly and screaming homophobic obscenities, was fatally damaged, crazy and borderline mentally challenged.
Roseanne Barr has as much qualification to talk about politics as my dog Wally has to talk about quantum physics.
Maybe less. Roseanne chose to marry Tom Arnold. Wally would not.
Thomas Friedman, who writes for the liberal “New York Times” but is not aligned with any party, and has views on both sides of the aisle, made a chilling observation. (He is not as much pro democrat as he is anti-Trump)
And his chilling point was we have not had Donald Trump in a crisis yet.
When we have a president in a crisis who only has two main motivations, A, saving his own ass at everyone’s expense, and, B, lying as much as possible to save his ass, we will really know the horror of the catastrophe that is having, not only no leadership in place, but a person in power whose only concern is his own welfare.
This is a Titanic captain who, as long as he knows he has his own lifeboat, will tell us everything is fine.
Imagine a Trump in the White House during the Civil War?
“We have good people on both sides of slavery. Both sides.”
My opinion of Friedman is he is a strong voice of reason in the Middle East. He states things the way they are, not along ideological paths. If one side or the other is wrong, for example Palestine or Israel, he will let you know.
Thomas Friedman could not stress enough that his only motivation in advising the upcoming elections is to take power away from Donald Trump.
With Donald Trump viciously attacking not just the media and democrats, but also republicans who do not suck up to him, like Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and FBI head, Robert Mueller, but also attacking the institutions themselves, like the FBI and the Justice Department and the CIA, just to save his own ass, people who support Trump will soon have to decide to stay with Trump and go against their own country.
In fury of losing their virtually only Hollywood figure head, “Roseanne,” conservatives are screaming for a reckoning with the head of Bill Maher for calling Donald Trump an orangutan. (Not the same thing Roseanne did describing an African American as “Planet of the Apes”)
But here is the deal. Liberals no longer like Bill Maher because he is way too hard on Muslims, as Maher is hard on all religions.
So liberals, like Ben Affleck, have labeled Maher islamophobic. Liberals will gladly give up Bill Maher. By any rationale definition, Maher is a liberal, but he is not liberal enough for liberals on tolerance of Muslims.
Just like they labeled liberal standard barer, Al Franken, sexist, liberals keep cannibalizing their own side choosing politically correct ideology over practicality and common sense.
Meanwhile, the right will take anyone and everyone who even remotely comes close to their views who isn't in jail. Hell, even if they are in jail.
No matter how smug and principled democrats feel, elections come down to numbers and the democrats keep hemorrhaging numbers.
While I am undeclared, my default heart will always be with my democratic mom and her well-meaning and hard-working liberal friends at the North Shore Democratic Headquarters in Winnetka in 1975. There I delivered pamphlets, answered phones.
But when something rings true it usually rings true for a reason, and this rings true:
"If liberals are so f*cking smart how come they lose so goddamn always?"
- "The Newsroom" Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels)
Republicans, especially the alt-right, have a well-deserved reputation for, um, a lack of inclusivity. To put it nicely.
Having said that, the most intolerant, smug, judgmental and most rigid asshole I know is a hard-core liberal.
And he is the shittiest bass player I have ever heard.
There just isn't much worse than a bald nerd who thinks their poop does not stink.
Roseanne Barr is now blaming her racist tweets on Ambien. Apparently when someone told her to take the high road, she thought they meant blame it on being high.
****
Roseanne Barr lost her show, re-runs and her agent. To put that in perspective, remember the rabbit snatched by an eagle while in the jaws of a fox? He did not lose his agent.
****
Starbucks has decided to cancel the launch of their new "Roseanne" Supreme White Vanilla Latte.
****
The Houston Rockets set an NBA record for missing 27 three-point shots. After the game, four of them missed the door to their bus.
****
Roseanne Barr tweeted a comparison between Valerie Jarrett and the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes." That is shocking. I had no idea Roseanne Barr knew what the Muslim Brotherhood was.
****
In Texas at a Vanilla Ice concert, a fan cartwheeled and fell off the stage but left under her own power. Isn't that amazing? There was a Vanilla Ice concert? And there was a fan?
****
"Here is all you have to do. Go to a Padres game and sing the National Anthem again only this time on your knee. In blackface."
- Tom Arnold helping Roseanne Barr spin her image problem.
****
Just took an Ambien now I have an unholy desire to tweet that my neighbor's labradoodle is a mutt.
****
Yale beat Duke to win the NCAA title for lacrosse. It was a hard-fought game. At one point, a fight broke about between the player's butlers and chauffeurs.
Yale beat Duke for the NCAA lacrosse championship. The trash talking was brutal;
"Say there, athletic combatant, your proclivity to end a sentence with a preposition is downright obtuse."
****
ABC is going to replace "Roseanne" with specials like "Paula Deen's Halloween," "Louis C.K.'s Tinder Dates" and "Happy Hour with Bill Cosby."
****
Kim Kardashian met with Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform. Awkward moment when it became clear Kim thought incarceration was a form of car racing.
Since you asked:
Roseanne Barr proved the problem, once again, is celebrities being too stupid to comment on politics.
It is not liberals, it is not conservatives, it is the uneducated. It is insecurity. It is the uninformed. It is ego needing to be heard without any merit.
Again, it is not about liberal or conservative. It is about stupid.
Ben Affleck has an Academy Award for writing a screenplay, “Good Will Hunting.” The problem? Ben didn’t write one word of it, William Goldman did, so people think Ben is smart. And yet Affleck went on “Real Time with Bill Maher” and argued vociferously in defense of ISIS.
Ben Affleck is considered a smart, politically savvy celebrity. Ben Affleck is just plain stupid.
(See: Phoenix back tattoo. See: "Gigli" )
Roseanne Barr had a tragic childhood. She grew up poor and secretly Jewish in Utah and, while she might have been home-schooled, there is no indication she ever went to any school let alone high school.
At 16, Roseanne was hit by a car and suffered a traumatic head injury so severe that it changed her behavior so radically she had to be institutionalized in the Utah State Mental Hospital. While in that Draconian nightmare, at 16, Roseanne had a baby she gave up for adoption.
That is about as tragic as a childhood can be. That is not Roseanne's fault, on the contrary, Roseanne deserves all the credit in the world for becoming successful in spite of all that horror.
Roseanne Barr has had virtually no education and a serious brain injury and yet, because she had a few good high-pitched, whiny jokes about her slovenly feminine hygiene, she was making $40 mil. a year in 1997.
Not in anyone's list of top 100 comedians, Roseanne Barr truly won the celebrity lottery.
So when someone who had a successful show talks about politics, people listen. As a society, we assign so much value to fame and fortune, we clearly attribute to it qualities that are not there, like political astuteness.
Lest we not forgot, Roseanne Barr is the same person who falsely accused her parents of sexual abuse. When her parents were crestfallen and vehemently denied it, Roseanne admitted, 20 years later, she was lying. (When she retracted that most awful of all lies possible on "Oprah," Roseanne also put the blame on prescription drugs)
Believe me when I say I am not good at much, but I am a good judge of character. And the character of Roseanne Barr I saw at the La Jolla Comedy Store in 1986, bombing horribly and screaming homophobic obscenities, was fatally damaged, crazy and borderline mentally challenged.
Roseanne Barr has as much qualification to talk about politics as my dog Wally has to talk about quantum physics.
Maybe less. Roseanne chose to marry Tom Arnold. Wally would not.
Thomas Friedman, who writes for the liberal “New York Times” but is not aligned with any party, and has views on both sides of the aisle, made a chilling observation. (He is not as much pro democrat as he is anti-Trump)
And his chilling point was we have not had Donald Trump in a crisis yet.
When we have a president in a crisis who only has two main motivations, A, saving his own ass at everyone’s expense, and, B, lying as much as possible to save his ass, we will really know the horror of the catastrophe that is having, not only no leadership in place, but a person in power whose only concern is his own welfare.
This is a Titanic captain who, as long as he knows he has his own lifeboat, will tell us everything is fine.
Imagine a Trump in the White House during the Civil War?
“We have good people on both sides of slavery. Both sides.”
My opinion of Friedman is he is a strong voice of reason in the Middle East. He states things the way they are, not along ideological paths. If one side or the other is wrong, for example Palestine or Israel, he will let you know.
Thomas Friedman could not stress enough that his only motivation in advising the upcoming elections is to take power away from Donald Trump.
With Donald Trump viciously attacking not just the media and democrats, but also republicans who do not suck up to him, like Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and FBI head, Robert Mueller, but also attacking the institutions themselves, like the FBI and the Justice Department and the CIA, just to save his own ass, people who support Trump will soon have to decide to stay with Trump and go against their own country.
In fury of losing their virtually only Hollywood figure head, “Roseanne,” conservatives are screaming for a reckoning with the head of Bill Maher for calling Donald Trump an orangutan. (Not the same thing Roseanne did describing an African American as “Planet of the Apes”)
But here is the deal. Liberals no longer like Bill Maher because he is way too hard on Muslims, as Maher is hard on all religions.
So liberals, like Ben Affleck, have labeled Maher islamophobic. Liberals will gladly give up Bill Maher. By any rationale definition, Maher is a liberal, but he is not liberal enough for liberals on tolerance of Muslims.
Just like they labeled liberal standard barer, Al Franken, sexist, liberals keep cannibalizing their own side choosing politically correct ideology over practicality and common sense.
Meanwhile, the right will take anyone and everyone who even remotely comes close to their views who isn't in jail. Hell, even if they are in jail.
No matter how smug and principled democrats feel, elections come down to numbers and the democrats keep hemorrhaging numbers.
While I am undeclared, my default heart will always be with my democratic mom and her well-meaning and hard-working liberal friends at the North Shore Democratic Headquarters in Winnetka in 1975. There I delivered pamphlets, answered phones.
But when something rings true it usually rings true for a reason, and this rings true:
"If liberals are so f*cking smart how come they lose so goddamn always?"
- "The Newsroom" Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels)
Republicans, especially the alt-right, have a well-deserved reputation for, um, a lack of inclusivity. To put it nicely.
Having said that, the most intolerant, smug, judgmental and most rigid asshole I know is a hard-core liberal.
And he is the shittiest bass player I have ever heard.
There just isn't much worse than a bald nerd who thinks their poop does not stink.
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