Here's what I think...

Okay what I am about to say is fact because I say so. I am the Omnipotent power of the Patch, therefore I only need "because I said so" to back me up. It works as being MOMnipotent too.

America is made up of people I agree with, people I almost always agree with, people I seldom agree with, and what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about people AKA stupid people.

Jon Stewart is in the first category. I agree with him 99.999% of the time.
President Obama, Former President Clinton, and pretty much Former President Carter are in the "almost always" group.
Jon Huntsman, Orrin Hatch, Jim Matheson are in the seldom because I can count on one hand the things I agree with.
I think naming names in the last group is beating a dead horse, or Fox, or bulldog with lipstick, ya know?

So Jon's rally:
http://www.comedycentral.com/press/images/dailyshow/TDS-Rally-Poster_Rally-To-Restore-Sanity.jpg
It's slated as non-partisan but there are some disagreements as to the truthfulness of that claim. One thing President Obama has NOT achieved is to bi-partisan cooperation, but that's not Obama's fault. I've seen very little effort made by Democrats AND Republicans. Stewart is no holds barred on calling out Obama when he's wrong and he's expressed his approval of McCain in the BP years (before Palin). McCain can DO bipartisan, but he hasn't since his defeat. Here's the problem uber-conservatives have with Jon Stewart: He uses big words and they need a dictionary to look them up. The words that he uses that they DO understand are usually bleeped. I think intelligent Republicans are watching. Why wouldn't they? Stupid people are fairly lost causes so they are pointless.

So here's President Obama's thoughts on the rally:



Seems a bit hypocritical to call out Fox news et al while showing approval of Jon Stewart. Here's where the distinction is: Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc, are 24 hour news channels. The Daily Show lasts 30 minutes. Colbert too, but I'm not a fan.

In any case, it will prove to be interesting. I wish I could attend, but I'd be booted for my inability to use my indoor voice when I'm irate!!

Bill O'Reilly losing it?

Of course not! He never even had it to begin with. But shhhhhh, "the folks" still tune in.

So O'Reilly had Jon Stewart on the Factor. I'm not sure what he was thinking because even with Fox's Award winning editing department (okay they haven't won any award but they could make Janice Dickenson look 18 and demure, they are THAT good)he looked like an idiot. He's perpetually angry, embarrassingly insulting, coming off defensive, bigoted, and frankly uneducated.

See for yourself:


I have felt a disappointment with our country's leaders. I never believed Obama was a Messiah, but he's not had the support to bring about the change we all envisioned. Even his biggest supporters lack the courage to put themselves out there and what he HAS done he's done it with little to no support and an overwhelming amount of trivial insanity from "the folks". I still shudder to think of Palin in the White House. I can just imagine the reality show that would come of that. I'll be humming this all day:
(Sing to Beverly Hillbillies TV show theme song)
Come'n listen to my story 'bout a gal named Sarah
A quitter from Wasilla, barely kept her family fed
And then one day, she was winkin' at Putin
And up from Arizona come a babblin' fool
Republican, that is, party-of-no, pork-barrel champion
Well, the next thing you know, old Sarah’s a millionaire
Kin folk said, Sarah, dump Todd and move away from there
Said, the lower 49 is the place you oughta be
So she loaded up the truck and moved to DC
Lobbyists, ghost writers, that is, cocktail parties, corrupt politicians
Set a spell, take your snow boots off
Y'all come back now, hear?”
(Credit to Bronxdude)

I wonder if "the folks" noticed that Jon didn't include himself among the middle class that President Obama is trying to help with the tax cuts and stimulus programs. Because Jon Stewart, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Stephen ColberT, Sarah Palin... None of them hold a political office. None of them have all of the answers. Some of them claim to be scholars and some to be jesters. But none of them live like I do. None of them are "the folks" if by that they mean simple people who just struggle to pay the bills and raise the best kids that they can. I'm one of THOSE folks, but I think that Bill-O MIGHT be talking about the stupid people. I'm feeling guilty for spending $25 on a pair of Payless shoes and triumph at the formal I got on ebay for my teenage daughter for $32. That's who I am and I have no regrets.

Update:
I have no words... Okay I have 2 words: STUPID PEOPLE!

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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The Grim Tale of the Peasants and the Koolaid Party or Why we don't like WWTC (condensed)

Once upon a time there was a fictional group of peasants who lived in a rural area. They lived there because they wanted to be free to worship, govern, and sustain themselves. They were humble, God fearing, and by, no means, rich, peasants, just hardworking. They were thriving, farming, and harvesting what they needed. They had their own local business that were the livelihood of themselves, their friends and family. But there had been problems between these peasants and the government of Evilland. Evilland had a huge hand in monopolizing the trade on many things because West Walmartia Trading Company (WWTC) was headquartered in Evilland. WWTC's trade route was so big and and the goods came in such huge quantities that the fictional people couldn't compete with the prices and they were none too pleased at the taxes either! The peasants no longer lived in Evilland, in fact they lived a sea away and the thought of the ruler of Evilland gettin' all up in their Koolaid really irritated them. So they disguised themselves and went aboard the big fat FREAKING WWTC ships and threw 90,000 pounds of Evilland Koolaid into Peasant Harbor. Evilland was very displeased at the rebellion and presented them with a bill to pay for all of that wasted Koolaid. The peasants laughed and said "Pshaw right!" Then blah blah blah Revolutionary War blah blah and the peasants formed their own government and called it the United Peasants of Peasantania.

They lived happily ever after.


Until....

Nearly 3 centuries later the peasants were bored and fat and lazy. They were fighting amongst themselves. The President of Peasantania didn't look like the original peasants or any of the Presidents that came before him. This freaked them out. They started marching with signs that made no sense (even if they HAD spelled everything right). They called their cause the same name the original peasants did without really knowing what happened then and what is happening now. I live in a small village in Peasantia and you know what I see? I see the little frame shop near the university go out of business. Clothing stores, grocery stores, mom and pop stores all gone now. What peasant would make all of those stops if they can get everything at once and for less money (and quality) at the local Walmartia Trading Company? So the dimwits with the signs and the Koolaid wrappers stapled to their hats have lost sight of what the Peasant party was REALLY about. Just like Evilland, Walmartia pays the Relephant party A LOT of money at campaign time. And as all of us middle class peasants sit here bickering over who is right and who is wrong, no one looks back to see where we came to this place that were in.


The characters in this story are purely fictional. Any similarities between them and real individuals are purely coincidental.

'Cmon little Patchling, you can say whatever you want, except that you like Glenn Beck.

I was listening to President Obama's Back to School Speech and wondering if my daughters were allowed to listen to him this year. He mentions his mother often when he talks about education. He makes it very clear that he is who he is because of her. Glenn Beck said that President Obama is reverse racist. He doesn't like white people. Glenn, his mama was white. I'm thinking he just doesn't like stupid white people. I don't even think he notices that they are white.

I'm voting Libertarian in my District House this year. I read a silly survey of questions that they each filled out. I know the Republican incumbent whose answers on dream car and favorite local restaurant makes it clear he's wealthy enough to be a Republican Politician. The Lib stated an affordable restaurant and the modest car he already drives. His answers were creative and amusing (showing that he'll play along even though it was stupid) and they were correct or else he's smart enough to know what the right answers are. Either way, I'm voting for him. Plus his name made me laugh all the way to the school and back.
VOTE BARRY SHORT!!!

So beautiful.

The Patch has had some requests.

One of them being the use of more Jon Stewart clips to emphasize some of my opinions on the more cracked individuals who had used their constitutional right of free speech it further reinforce how crude, rude, and unrefined some Americans can be ie. the entire Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachman, etc. I also have a guest blogger so stay tuned just in case the little Patchling decides to throw in her $.02.

Today's Daily Show clip is aimed at Fox News ignorance, and Terry "Yosemite" Jones, disingenuous change of heart. I think he and Glenn Beck are hearing the same party line voices in their head that they are attributing to God when in fact it's clear that they are seriously mental.
In case you are confused but who Terry Jones is and Yosemite Sam, this is for you:

(Yosemite Sam is the one that is clearly the most reasonable and intelligent looking.)

In one of the last clips of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made a sensible argument about how stupid it is to worry what the radical Islamic people overseas think of us. Since when did WE start letting nut jobs influence our country. Oh yeah, that was the Bush Administration.. My bad.  But I'm with General Petraeus on this one. Burning the holy book of the Islamic people is an offense to the good people around the country that are kind and faithful people but it would also add fodder to the people in terrorist organizations just waiting for propaganda to stoke the rage and hatred against the American people.

Anywho.. Here's the clip of the day:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Islamophobiapalooza
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Okay, I'm talking semantics right now.

We'll start off with The Most Trusted man in the media and his approach to this issue:

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The Hurt Talker
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So here's my take on the matter. Hatred and bigotry needs to go. The N-word is way worse because it means one thing and it's disparaging to black people. That being said, THEY need to stop using it too. It needs to be something that we teach our children is degrading and wrong along with other racial slurs.

Retarded has become slang for mentally handicapped individuals but it has other definitions:

re·tard
   (ree-tahrd)
–verb (used with object)
1.
to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
–verb (used without object)
2.
to be delayed.

For example: "The extremist right wingers are retarding the progress of our country for really stupid reasons."
Or: "The Minister who planned to burn Quran is retarded in his thinking." In other words he is hindering or slowing the acceptance of people's difference.
And don't forget that if you need to stop a fire, you use fire retardant. So can we move it along to something real? Sarah Palin is such a hypocrite. Her freedom of speech is more important that the rest of America's. She's very retarded in her way of thinking.

Remembering...

As I went through my day, yesterday getting everything ready for my youngest daughter's birthday party, I did it like I have for the past 9 years: In a daze. Not the same as the day she turned 4. It was so busy. I had to get her to preschool. The invitations were sent. I had come up with a cute idea to make her poster of her short life even better. I bought die-cut letters spelling out her name and strung them on yarn like a necklace that laid on the pictures of her first 4 years of life. But from the moment my husband called me telling me to turn on the TV to watch the horror of an attack that still makes no sense to me it was like sleepwalking. Only one tower had been hit and I watched in disbelieving horror as the second plane flew into and almost through, but not quite, the second tower. It never occurred to me to worry for MY safety or that of my kids. The terrorists were obviously making a huge statement by choosing targets of political and populated immensity. Everywhere I went the radio or television was on. When the attacks were over I was reminded that being a newscaster is probably not on par with rocket science as the pundits asked inane questions and offered useless commentary. The bewilderment of the people living in NYC became anger, resentment and a need for vengeance. It also united the country in a way that was astonishing and brief.
9 years later and our country is as divided as it's ever been or maybe that is just the way it feels to me. Hatred is a common commodity and it's bought and sold with ignorance. My daughter's party was a success. Far more successful than I was anticipating considering I was catering to a bunch of little divas. In the background we watched the horror of 9/11 replayed over and over on the History Channel. It's amazing to me that nine years have passed and I feel no sense of atonement. Our country is financially broken by a war that to me seems a farce. It's always felt that George H. Bush had no real end to Operation Desert Storm. Saddam Hussein wasn't dead and Bush couldn't have another term. The Clinton years pulled us out of the huge national debt. And George W. Bush Jr. former college cheerleader, part owner of the Texas Ranger Baseball team, and card carrying alcoholic "good ol' boy", set about to tie up Daddy's loose ends. And he did. Bush Jr. surprised many people by choosing Dick Cheney as Vice President, but probably not his co-members of the Skull and Bones Society where shaking hands with the devil is what they aspire too. Financed by daddy's oil and bloodshed and married to Haliburton prince of darkness George W. became the worst president the United States of America has ever had. After riding off into the sunset, free of puppet master Cheney, George hasn't had much to say in the last couple of years. That's been the wisest thing he's ever done, in my opinion.
I don't know when it was, in the past nine years that the unanswered questions started nagging at me. Questions like: Why Pearl Harbor? If you're going to poke a hornet's nest, do the most damage possible, right? And when the hornets begin to sting, they annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Killing so many innocent people. Doctors, nurses, civilians. Why?? What was the military strategy in that?
So it's 2010 and President Obama has shifted the war from Iraq to Afghanistan. The Al Quida has had plenty of time to regroup and like his father, George W. left office knowing that the bad guy slipped through his fingers. President Obama is left holding the bag, and the debt, and the unnecessary wars including a renewal of the war on racial prejudice. The Republicans, the bat shit crazy Tea Party/Birthers/9-12ers, etc. How does he face it? A self destructive country.
Who will be our first female president? Sarah Palin? I'm guessing one of the Bush twins. She can continue the tradition of cleaning up daddy's mess and even secure a pardon for all of the atrocities committed under false intelligence. There's no atonement for the events of 9/11/01. No redemption because we are tired of war, and lies. We're broken. And in some crappy hole in Afghanistan, a stinking man by the name of Osama Bin Laden laughs at American stupidity and greed.
Happy freaking birthday, youngest daughter.