Currently Watching

No matter how many times I watch it, I’m still enthralled by it. I love the characters — espcially Mrs. Bennett as played by Alison Steadman. What a wonderful drama queen! She reminds me very much of a person I once was friends with. Yikes!

I love the layers of the characters involved, and how Mr. Darcy’s character in particular is revealed piece-by-piece. Isn’t that so true of real life? So often our first impressions lead us astray. Why is that?

Is it, perhaps, because so many of us have learned how to conceal our true natures, as Mr. Darcy did, behind facades and masks? We deceive people as to who we really are, what we really think, and the depth (or lack of) and nature of our character, out of fear of rejection, or fear of conflict. Then we live in fear of being discovered for the frauds we are.

Others of us prejudge those wearing the masks, as if we are better than those living a lie, because we are not as they, whatever they may be living as.

Perhaps the biggest crime of all is that both of us fail to realize that we suffer the same malady of the heart: Pride and Prejudice.

…oh, here comes the good part! Talk with ya later….

Bring Back Janet

I’m sitting here watching the Superbowl with Adria. Well, really, the end of the half-time show.

I "should" be writing — I have an assignment of about 1,000 words due tomorrow… it might be a leeetle late….. ‘Cause I’m watching the game instead of writing. I’m not interested in who wins, just who loses. I don’t want the Patriots to win. It’s a principle thing with me. They beat my Panthers last year. I want them to lose big time this year.

So half time… I have one word. Bor-ring. Not that I’m into these kinds of shows anyway. Last year I missed the moment all the hoopla was about. I was hanging out at the bar-b-cue, talking with friends when "it" happened. But I gotta tell ya, Paul McCartney may be cool and all, but he makes for a boring show — especially in someplace as big as a football stadium. What kind of show did the folks up in the attic seats get, I ask you. A few fireworks on two different songs, some videos shown on small long screens, and a little tiny ant-thing on a little stand

More Gate Coming

WooHoo My favorite show is back for another season! Trivial news to you, perhaps. But given that I have four of the previous seven seasons on dvd, you could kinda say I’m a bit of a fanatic. I even named my car “Col. O’Neill” after one of the lead characters. It’s an old, cranky man that doesn’t follow orders, complains a lot, but has a wicked sense of humor and is usually right, just like the “other” Col O’Neill (“two Ls, there’s another Col. O’Neil, with only one L… He has no sense of humor.”).

SCI FI OPENS THE ‘GATES’ TO MORE ADVENTURES
…SG-1 Ties for Longest-Running Sci-Fi Drama

In response to overwhelming viewer demand, SCI FI Channel has ordered a new season of its highest-rated and most successful original series, Stargate SG-1, from MGM Television Entertainment. Production on a new 20-episode season is set to begin in March 2005 for summer premiere on SCI FI.

As Stargate SG-1 returns for an astounding ninth original season, it ties The X-Files as the longest-running sci-fi drama series on American television. MGM is currently in negotiations with the original cast for their return.

New episodes of SG-1 return in January 2005.

The Democrats Just Don’t Get It

Kerry Clarifies Cheney Daughter Remark

I saw this story earlier today as I scanned the Headlines… and then tonight, as I watched a repeat episode of "The West Wing" on Bravo (I loooooove Bravo!! What a great invention, cable television…) the same issue was raised, and it so reinforced my viewpoint and convictions that I decided to go ahead and post about it here. You may want to shoot me… but you’ll get over it. I’m too cute to hate for long. 🙂

The democrats, or liberals, whatever you want to call them… anyway, the democrats pride themselves on being a party of inclusion, and non-labels, on being the open-minded and tolerant of all peoples and religions (except conservatives. And Christians. And evangelicals). They pride themselves on their non-judgementalism. Yet they can’t seem to understand that, for all their chest-beating, they put people into boxes with little labels more than any other group I’ve seen.

Why is it that Kerry and Edwards both felt the need to bring up the fact that Cheney’s daughter is gay? Of what consequence is it? Are they just trying to push the buttons of the rare arch-conservative who actually thinks gays are bad? Or are they just so convinced that one’s sexuality is all of who you are?

I think  it’s much more the latter than the former. I don’t think they were trying to push buttons. I think they were earnestly trying to show how inclusive and nonjudgmental they were — by bringing up a topic they think the average Republican approaches with guns loaded and aimed. They wanted to show they are the kinder, gentler party. The party who thinks all gays and lesbians are "just being who they are."

And they don’t have a clue how sycophantic, pandering, and foolish they look. And I’ll bet anything that most democrats are completely perplexed by all the hoopla surrounding Kerry’s comment… or they think it’s more proof that the republicans are homophobic.

Clueless.

Here’s the thing. Sexual orientation, race, color… they don’t make up the whole of who a person is. Unless, of course, the person chooses to make their whole life revolve around those few things.

The West Wing episode I watched — and let me just say this. West Wing is one of the, if not THE, best produced, best written and best acted shows on television right now. It is thought-provoking, funny, entertaining and just plain good. The funny thing to me is — and having worked in Hollywood for many, many years I’ve noticed this is a pattern with most liberals — they get it right, in more ways than one, more often than they will ever know. Clueless. They’re all just clueless. They stumble and crash headlong into the truth and prove the republicans/conservative "agenda/platform/values" right and the democrat/liberal ones wrong so many times, often as they attempt to portray republicans in a bad light.

It happened in the episode tonight. A republican congressman who just happens to be gay was supporting a bill defining marriage. Josh finally gets frustrated with him, asking why in the world he was in "that party" — the party, he said, "that says who you are is against the law."

The congressman then speaks precisely to my frustration over this issue — and over the Democrat party in general. He tells Josh that he agrees with 95% of the Republican party platform, things like empowering local government, individual rights not group rights, a strong defense, etc…. Then comes the punch. The thing Democrats/Liberals just cannot seem to comprehend:

"My life isn’t all about being a homosexual. It doesn’t have to be entirely about that."

Bingo! The big truth that democrats/liberals just cannot seem to wrap their brains around. For all their posturing and language, they honestly believe that sexual orientation, race, and/or creed defines a person. Why else would Kerry and Edwards make mention of Cheney’s daughter? What’s the point of bringing it up (especially when it has nothing to do with the original topic of conversation) except to point out that what she is is who she is, and all she is? Kerry says just that. "she’s just being who she was…"

This explains to a great degree why they are so opposed to individual freedom and so insistent that group rights trump individuals, quotas trump talent-grades-abilities. Because WHAT you are determines WHO you are and what you can BECOME… unless an outside force — like the government — intervenes and "helps" you make it to the next level.

And I know that every democrat reading this right now is growing angrier by the second and is convinced this is just not so. So insidious is this line of thinking that most who believe it just can’t see it for what it is.

Not until someone does something stupid. Like Kerry did last night.

Perhaps not even then. Most democrats probably won’t see it. Ever.

Kerry is wrong when he says, "she’s just being who she was… who she was born to be" when attaching that phrase to her sexual orientation. Can’t anyone see that’s akin to saying a pregnant woman is just being who she was born to be — a baby factory — or a poor black man is "just being who he was born to be…" What crap. What tripe. What bigoted, arrogant, condescending garbage.

And yet the democrats buy it, bottle it, sell it and put all their hopes in it.

They just don’t get it.

In Spirit with CBS – I Apolajize

In the spirit of the current media circus known as “Should CBS Apologize?” I must, in all good conscience, tender my own, full-fledged apology.

Through no fault of my own, and having been throughly deceived by my Dashbard wysiwyg editor, I am guilty of a blog full of spelling errors.

You see, I have a Mac. I love my Mac. Don’t even think about touching my Mac. I will hunt you down and hurt you. Just ask the last one who tried…. okay, so nobody’s tried yet… but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t take ’em on… and take ’em out… I’m powerful for my size, you know….

I also use Safari as my web brower. EBlogger says Macs are slightly supported by their wysiwyg editor. EBlogger also says Safari is slightly supported by their wysiwyg editor. The spell check is supposed to be one of those fully-functioning…functions… as it were… in the wysiwyg editor. However, in my last post I knew I had several spelling errors, yet the Spellcheck told me there were none.

Therefore, I cannot be held responsible in any way for the spelling errors found herein. In short, sirs, it’s not my fault. I was given false information… led down a primrose path…. trapped in a system not up to standard…. stop the madness, darn it! Spellcheck should be for everyone! I’ve been had by a left-wing conspiracy to make me look illiterate and un-spell-checkable…!

In conclusion, I would just like to state for the record that it was not my desire nor my intention to misrepresent the words mispelled in this blog. I cannot be held responsible for any injury incurred to them or to their usability.

Thank you for your continued support.