President Obama & the Media (and other stuff)

Random thoughts bouncing through my brain during b'fast:

(1) The mainstream media has to halt coverage of both the Letterman Legacy (subtitle: How to Abuse Positional Power to Gain Decades of Sexual Gratification with Multiple Staffers) and the Gosselin Divorce escapades (subtitle: You, Too, Can Make a Career Off a Gullible Public). As my mother used to say, Fools' names, and fools' faces, are always found in public places.

(2) Refocus the President's press time on the Fox Network: if you make that network your go-to organization for press coverage, they will be so busy covering all the non-events of the presidency that they won't have time to question anything said/done by anyone! Caveat: once Fox is no longer the target of the administration's not-so-hidden private agenda, the "mainstream" media may have to spend some time/do some research to fill their broadcast hours, and they may begin to unearth some real news in the process.

(3) Rather than continuing to polarize the citizens into radical lunatics and liberal progressives, how about we just talk about ... citizens with differing points of view? It doesn't matter what your political philosophy is, as long as you are both exercising the responsibility to think for yourself and the Constitutional right to express yourself in public venues. Well, it does help if the citizen does a bit of research and knows the difference between fact and fiction, but even that is not a citzenship requirement in this nation.

(4) Keep in mind that for any event, private or public, there are two critical needs that must be met: parking and potties. Next time you sell tickets to an outdoor basketball game in a venue that seats 15k, don't stock the toilets with extra rolls of paper if the patrons cannot find parking and enter the venue. Missing the first half of the game this year could be a future deal-breaker.

(5) About the retro football uniforms: I'm sure that a designer spent far too many hours to create the retro look and the NFL ponied up significant monies to pay for them, but they are ugly! And about those sideline outfits worn by the Cleveland Brown's staff: were they designed and paid for by UPS?

(6) Clever workaround: if the voters will not approve gay marriage, the governor signs a bill and voila! The will of the special interest groups is law. Celebrate good times, come on!

(7) A man who relocated to my desert city was shot and killed in the parking lot of the grocery store down the street at 12:30 am by what is described as a "Hispanic" gunman. Facts do not make this a racist accusation: the gunman is described as Hispanic, a culture that comprises about 70% of the Valley's population. What may make this either a racist or a gang shooting is the fact that the man in the parking lot was Asian, and often Hispanics and Asian gangs share bad blood. Just as often, young gang bangers have to make their bones by shooting someone; hence, the victim is in the wrong place at the wrong time, but he wouldn't have known this because he relocated over the weekend and had just finished his second day on his new job.

(8) Sugar-free Jell-o and sugar-free/fat-free instant pudding are good, but so much better when the Jell-o is inside a poke cake frosted with pudding and Cool-Whip mixed together -- or baked into a chocolate pie, a lemon meringue pie, or used to create the jell in a fresh strawberry pie.

(9) So, if my A1C and my blood sugar are well within normal ranges and have been for the past two years, am I still diabetic? Or have I reverted to the "pre" diabetes grey area in which I've lived for about ... 40 years ... since my first pregnancy?

(10) If I had $10K, could I make changes to my kitchen that would not just make it more user-friendly, but also provide me with adequate storage for all the boxes marked "kitchen" that are still in the garage? I've been cleaning cupboards, but emptying what I have does NOT increase over-all storage!

Okay, I'll go back to reading during my morning meal, rather than just thinking about what I'm thinking about.