Tom Hayden: ‘Did Anti-War & Lifelong Democrat Tom Hayden Send Generation a Huge Message?’

Source:BBC News- Tom Hayden & Jane Fonda.

“Hayden died in his home in Santa Monica “after a lengthy illness”, the Los Angeles Times reports.

He was a member of the “Chicago seven” charged with conspiracy over anti-Vietnam war protests in 1968 and eventually acquitted.

Hayden later served in the California state assembly and Senate for nearly two decades. He was married to actress Jane Fonda between 1973 and 1990.

Born in Michigan in 1939, he became an activist during his time at the University of Michigan, where he helped to found Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

While there, he wrote a policy document called the Port Huron Statement, which he styled the “agenda for a generation.” 

From BBC News 

“DemocracyNow.org – We speak with Tom Hayden, principal author of the Port Huron statement 50 years ago, the founding document of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The statement advocated for participatory democracy and helped launch the student movement of the 1960s. Tens of thousands of copies of the 25,000-word document were printed in booklet form. The youth-led movement changed the very language of politics and its impact is still being felt today. Hayden is a longtime activist and former California state senator.” 

Source:Democracy Now- Students For a Democratic Society founder Tom Hayden.

From Democracy Now 

Every generation in America is different, but from really the founding of the American Federal Republic in the 1770s, to up to the early and mid 1960s, America was dominated by a social collectivist culture about what it meant to be an American.

And then we go through the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s and even with that you have this generation of Americans who were born during that period (1925-41) who were growing during the Great Depression of the 1930s and then World War II during the 1940s and then the 1950s comes with America returning to prosperity, but with a generation of Silent babies who weren’t satisfied with that prosperity, who wanted more for themselves and for Americans who were left out of that prosperity, especially women and minorities.

This is the generation of Americans that Tom Hayden is from and represents as someone who was born in 1939 and grew up in the 1940s and 50s and went to college in the 1960s and lived through the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement that happened later in that decade. Who saw and viewed an America that didn’t work for everyone, especially themselves.

And then you have the Baby Boomers who came of age in the 1960s who joined this New-Left political movement that was about total equality between the races and between men and women, who were also antiwar. Who also wanted a new America, a new form of government, new economic system, to create an American socialist state that would work for everyone and even use violence in some cases to achieve those political goals.

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ABC Evening News: ‘March 1972, Campaign News’

Source:ABC News- Howard K. Smith, longtime anchor of the ABC Evening News.

“In this rare clip, One of Nixon’s primary challengers drop out, the Republican accuse AT&T of not making the Democrats pay phone bills, African Americans have their own convention Jesse Jackson makes an apprentice, also news on Northern Ireland.” 

From E-Fan

One way to sum up the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, is to say it went to the guy who was damaged the least and not to the best candidate. Because there was really never any real danger to President Nixon losing reelection. But about how big of victory he would get and what he would do with it.

The Democratic race for president between Senator’s George McGovern, Ed Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and others, was great TV and very interesting. And a very good look inside of the Democratic Party was between its establishment Center-Left, that Senator Muskie and Senator Humphrey represented and the more social democratic New-Left that Senator McGovern represented in 1972.

The story about the Black Panthers (a New-Left socialist and communist group interested in the state of the African-American community) was interesting. They were in and outside of the Democratic Party back then and much further left of the NAACP which is more of a progressive Center-Left civil rights organization who are definitely tied to the Democratic Party as their supporters are.

The word militant is perfect for the Black Panthers, because that is what they were. And at the very least were linked and associated with known terrorists and criminals. And were accused of being part of terrorists acts in the 1970s. They were looking for a much more radical direction for the African-American community than the NAACP.

Apparently big business’s and other special interests on the Democratic Party and Republican Party was also a big issue in 1972. Of course it was which is why I still don’t know why Congress has never passed a full-disclosure law on all federal candidates and incumbents. Actually I do, because neither Democrats, or Republicans want to disclose who contributes to their campaigns. Because a lot of those contributors are controversial and Democrats and Republicans don’t want to officially be associated with groups like that. But that along with ending gerrymandering completely is the only way you weed out corruption in American politics. Because of how liberal our First Amendment is. 

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Turner Sports: NBA 1988- Los Angeles Lakers @ Boston Celtics: Full Game

Source:Turner Sports- Boston Celtics off-guard Danny Ainge.

"1987 Celtics vs Lakers regular season" 

From Old School Sports

I couldn't watch enough NBA basketball back in the 1980s when the Celtics and Lakers ruled. Great rivalry because it had great teams.

MySpace: 'The New MySpace'

Source:MySpace- is the new MySpace better than the old? Don't see how it could get worst.

"The New Myspace" 

From the new MySpace

Hopefully the new MySpace doesn't suck as much as the current MySpace. (Fingers crossed) 

What MySpace really needs is someone who knows how to run a modern social media company. At its best, MySpace was a combination of the best of Facebook and Twitter, where you could follow people, instead of having to friend them, but where you could write long posts, notes, blog posts, even from your MySpace account. That's what it looked like back in 2009-10. Now it looks a piece of garbage where even posting things on it is difficult and where maybe no one will actually see it, because everyone you follow on MySpace or who follows you, has now left. 

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon: Jimmy Fallon As Jim Morrison

Source:The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon- playing a really bad Jim Morrison.

"Jimmy Fallon Does Jim Morrison=The Doors.. HD ..Reading Rainbow"

Source:The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon

The looks like a parody of Jim Morrison and The Doors performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967. Except The Doors performed Light My Fire and When People Are Strange. They got the leather jacket and shirt right, as well as the boots and the black leather jeans look similar to what Jim Morrison wore for that performance as well.

But what Jimmy Fallon Tonight got wrong here, is that performance that The Doors had on Ed Sullivan was one of their best ever. Jim Morrison and the band sounded as great as they ever had. Even if Ed Sullivan and company didn't like his use of the word higher in Light My Fire. It was sill one of his best performances ever. Jimmy Fallon just doesn't look like Jim Morrison. And unless you're simply not a fan of The Doors or even Morrison, I don't understand why someone would think this performance was funny.

There was plenty to make fun of Morrison and his performance here. The fact he goes on life stage on national TV on the biggest network with the biggest audience on the most popular show on the country at the time, with a boner sticking out of his skin-tight leather jeans. Maybe they could have had a cover doing that instead. The Ed Sullivan Show made sure that Morrison's boner was shown on national TV and shown multiple times.

Or they could've made fun of Ed Sullivan and his staff trying to get Morrison to drop the word higher from Light My Fire and made fun of censorship. Instead of Morrison's performance and trying to make him look some drunk singing Reading Rainbow with a 60s blues rock band.

Roberto Duran: The Doors- Five To One- With Lyrics

Source:Roberto Duran-The Lizard King Jim Morrison pondering.

"Cinco A Uno es el tema final del álbum Waiting For The Sun, es un grito de Guerra que comprende algo que se consideró algo violento en esas épocas hoy The Doors esta más vivo...  

From Roberto Duran

What I get from The Doors Five To One and remember most of it is there Miami concert in 1969. The Lizard King Jim Morrison, showing up hours late to that concert and drunk. And completely off his game (at least as a professional vocalist) looking very wobbly and at one point getting frustrated and starts cursing at the audience. He was so high and drunk on alcohol (as perhaps only a proud Irishman could be, LOL) that he starts trying to start a riot, or at least violence in the concert hall.

At least from a musical standpoint the 69 Miami concert was the worst performance that Jim Morrison ever gave. He was pissed off and drunk the whole time and the audience ends up booing him. But of course no one leaves, because they want to see what The Lizard King will do next. Sort of like a performer at a circus and at this point in Morrison's career that is really all he was. People watching him to see what crazy act will come next. 

Whatever you think of the song Five To One, that is how Jim Morrison goes out before ending up being tried in Miami for indecent exposure and foul language in public. 

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The Doors: Jim Morrison- 'Love Me Two Times'

Source:The Doors- Jim Morrison and The Doors: "Love Me Two Times."

"The Doors - Love Me Two Times Bonus Track" 

From The Doors 

Love Me Two Times, is a classic blues rock song. John Densmore plays the drums perfectly in this video and song. And the video is great as well and it combines both video and concert footage of The Doors. As well as showing Jim Morrison in the California desert acting out in the video. As well as Jim Morrison and The Doors in concert in London from 1968, as well as in San Jose, California in 1968. 

I don't know this for a fact, but I believe this song is about Jim Morrison and his relationship with long-term on and off girlfriend Pam Courson. They both loved each other, but to say they had a rocky relationship would be like saying there's a chance of getting wet when you jump in the ocean. You would end up breaking some world record for stating the obvious with a comment like that. 

Love Me Two Times suggest that there may be something wrong with a relationship and the love is being questioned by at least one member of that relationship. But that might just be me saying this, but this is an excellent blues song with a great beat.

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Detroit Tigers TV: MLB 1990- Detroit Tigers @ Cleveland Indians: Full Game

Source:GI Bomber- the Tigers and Indians in 1990.

"Missing 7th and 8th inning, with no scoring." 

From GI Bomber

A chance to see a baseball game from Cleveland Municipal Stadium. I know that it was nicknamed the mistake by the lake and the Cleveland Indians for the most part were never good there and played in front of empty crowds, where you might feel like you are at a A or AA minor league baseball game. But this was a good looking park for baseball. Fans were right on top the action, with very little territory and the place looked good for baseball. 

The problem with Cleveland Municipal Stadium was the Browns also played there and were always popular there and the place was so damn big as a result. But if the park was 50-55 thousand for baseball and the Browns had their own stadium, I think this would've been one of the better looking ballparks in MLB, similar to Milwaukee County Stadium or Baltimore Memorial Stadium. 

The Doors Experience: People are Strange- Live and In Concert

Source:The Doors Experience- As Jim Morrison & The Doors.

"A retrospective from the first concerts of THE DOORS EXPERIENCE.
Filmed in Locations in Lower Austria by Annemarie Ruf."

From The Doors Experience

People Are Strange, that could really sum up Jim Morrison and The Doors. Jim Morrison the vocalist, who for at least a 2-3 year period was almost always seen in public in his famous and stylish black leather suit. The man looked like a leather rock god in that leather suit. The black leather jacket, the lambskin and sometimes snakeskin, skin-tight, black leather jeans, that would be called skinny leathers today as far as pants. And of course black and sometimes brown cowboy boots. And his silver concho western belt.

The Lizard King wore his skin-tight leathers and concho to accentuate his crotch (and this is a direct quote) and sometimes brought too much attention because his leather jeans were so tight and he always had his shirt tucked in to his leathers so you that plus his belt sticking out and wore a short leather jacket so again women especially could check out his midsection and rear.

Expect for perhaps the concho belt which is really more a of a western cowboy and straight women look that women like to wear with their denim jeans and look western, Morrison's leather suit and boots today would be very rock and roll. But back in the late 1960s that look on anyone man or woman would look strange. But Jim Morrison being The Lizard King pulled it off to the point that his fans perhaps especially female wanted to his him in that outfit and especially performing in that outfit.

But Morrison just didn't perform in his leather suit. Most of his public appearances he was in his leather suit with concho and cowboy boots. As well as when he was out casually and seen in public. He did his interviews and traveled in that outfit. A big part of being The Lizard King for Jim Morrison was being a leather clad rock god. That seemed strange back then but is very mainstream in rock and roll today and has been for about thirty-five years now.

National Geographic: Breakout- Prison Romance

Source:National Geographic- the actress who plays the nurse and the actor who plays George, the inmate who breakouts in this episode.

"Breakout S01E05 :Prison Romance"

From Documentaries

I saw this program I believe in the summer of 2010. And what I got out of this was this woman, who was very attractive, but must of been so lonely and desperate that she would be open to do anything, as long as she found a man that were keep her company and be able to share their lives together. And she found that man who she thought was that guy in prison who was looking for someone to play, to help him do what he wanted to do. Which was to get out of prison and continue with his criminal career.

This episode of Breakout, is like a so-called, reality TV, dating show, or online dating network episode, gone real bad. Where you have two desperate people who don't know each other at all. Where you have a nurse who should know a helluva lot better, then to get involved with a hardcore prison inmate, whose looking at maybe 40 years in prison, before he ever sees the free world legitimately. But desperate people tend to do desperate things and let their desperation call their actions.

NFL Network: NFL 1968- Super Bowl 3- Baltimore Colts vs New York Jets: 'Top 10 Upsets'

Source:NFL- Super Bowl 3 highlights.

"Joe Namath brought swagger to the forefront of the AFL-NFL battle, as he guaranteed the Jets would defeat the highly-favored Baltimore Colts in the third AFL-NFL Championship." 

From the NFL

This is perhaps my favorite time of year, its either the holiday season or the start of summer which for Marylanders is late May, because I love football history, pro football and otherwise and I have a lot of these games, at least the highlights of them in my DVD library. And out of all the games in Baltimore pro football history (whether it's the Colts, Stars, Stallions or Ravens) its this game right here. 

We'll never know this for a fact, but let's say Colts QB John Unitas, who I and a lot of others believe is the great QB of all time, including my father, is healthy for this game, the Colts beat the Jets by the amount that they were favored to. They probably either cover the seventeen point spread or come close to it. 

If John Unitas was healthy and played the whole game, this wouldn't of been the biggest blowout in Super Bowl history. The Jets did have a very good, if not great team in 1968. I'm not taking anything away from them. But just look at the game, look at those two touchdown passes that Colts QB Earl Morral missed, one of them went for an incompletion, the other fell short for an INT, Morrall misses a wide open Jimmy Orr in the end zone for a td pass early in the game.

If John Unitas is healthy and plays the whole game, the Colts in the first half probably up with a couple of scores to take control of the game. But instead go scoreless in the first half, because QB Earl Morrall, misses Jimmy Orr, who was wide-open in the end zone. And then he throws an INT, when they Colts were already in field goal territory.  And then the Colts missed chip chop field goal. We will never know this for sure, but this is the mostly likely outcome, had John Unitas been healthy and played this game.

The Jets played very well but they also got some big breaks, like not having to face the best QB in pro football, until the second half when he wasn't at full strength. And the Colts simply not playing well as they should've and leaving two touchdowns on the field, as well as another touchdown in the second half.

Mariah Carey Vevo: 'All I Want For Christmas is You'

Source:Mariah Carey- all she wants for Christmas.

"Watch the official music video for "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey"  

From Mariah Carey 

"The Most Popular Christmas Song on YouTube Should Come as a Surprise to Literally No One" 

Source:Pop Sugar- Christmas Baby Mariah Carey. 

From Pop Sugar

Nobody sings this song better or as well, she actually makes it worth listening to. I've always thought Christmas music was pretty boring before Mariah Carey and saw it as a way to bring the 1950s back to life and return to the world of Leave it To Beaver or Father Knows Best, or whatever show from that era that wan't to use. But Mariah Carey with her incredibly sweet voice and overwhelming adorable presence and her R&B sound, makes Christmas music fun and worth listening to.

Mariah is someone who can make ordinary material sound interesting and great material sound incredible. Because of her delivery, the fact that she writes her own music and produces her own music, there's this strong feeling of realness and genuineness with her that you don't get from other performers and perhaps a lot of other performers. 

All I Want For Christmas, is a great Christmas song which might not sound like much talking about holiday music. But coming from Mariah it sounds like great music because it actually is.

ABC News: 20/20- Pierre Salinger: Grace Kelly Interview (1982)

Source:World of Flowers- Princess Grace Kelly, being interviewed by Pierre Salinger in 1982.

“Grace Kelly – Her complete last interview: 22 June 1982.” 

From World of Flowers 

Princess Baby Face of Monaco, was my first reaction to this video. Because that is the first that I saw and you add that incredible smile that Grace always had and that just adds to that.

She doesn’t look like she aged much since her Hollywood star years of the 1950s. And if there’s one woman who you would think looks like a European princess, it just might be Grace Kelly.

The thing being that Europe is such a diverse place ethnically and Grace looks more like an Anglo princess (being of Irish descent) than a Mediterranean princess.

Sophia Loren would be the Mediterranean princes. (At least in my opinion) But Grace always did have the look and class of royalty from her time growing up Philadelphia, even though you would never guess Philadelphia by the way she talked, all the way up to being Princess of Monaco. 

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The Doors Absolute Live: 'The Doors Full Concert Live in London (1968)'

Source:The Doors Absolute Alive- Jim Morrison and The Doors: Live in London, England, in 1968.

"The Doors live at The Roundhouse in London, England. 

1968-09-07 London, The Roundhouse (1st set)

Five To One 00:00

Break On Through (To The Other Side) 5:10

When The Music's Over 8:57" 

From The Doors Absolute Live

If only The Doors were big even in the early 1970s, but certainly the mid and late 1970s, we would really see how great of a band that they were and how great of a performer Jim Morrison was. But they were big in the late 1960s, but color TV and film was even important and and had a big presence then. But that is a different story of why so much footage of The Doors was in black and white. 

Color TV and film, was prevalent in the late 1960s and how a lot of Americans were able to see their TV and films, if they just had a color TV. Because the music in this concert and show, was very good, but the footage is somewhat blurry. And sort of looks like a card game in a card room with all the players smoking cigars making the footage somewhat smokey. 

If a colorized version of this concert ever became available like movies from the 1950s and 40s were colorized, I would be one of the first people to buy The Doors Live in London in concert, or record it on demand. Because this is a really good show from them. 

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CBS News: 'Larry Hagman Dies at 81 Years Old'

Source:CBS News- covering the death of actor Larry Hagman.

"Actor Larry Hagman, famous for his role as J.R. Ewing in the popular television show "Dallas," has died. Manuel Bojorquez reports." 

From CBS News

Even though Larry Hagman's career was more than Major Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeanie and JR Ewing on Dallas, he did other TV and some movies, including playing a late entry presidential candidate in the movie Primary Colors from 1998, when I think of Larry Hagman, I think of the clever and witty (I apologize for my language, prick) who could make people laugh, while being a prick, including the people he was being prickly to. 

The JR Ewing character had this incredible ability to size up people he was dealing with and know exactly where they were most vulnerable and where to hit them, if he felt the need to do so. Which is I guess is a great characteristic to have in business where JR Ewing was a very successful Dallas oilman. He could be a prick and make you laugh at the same time, because when he was critiquing someone, a lot of times he was accurate and not pulling things out of hot air or making things up but simply speaking the truth about who he was talking about. Which is a great skill for anyone to have, to be able to size people up.

Celia Munoz: Jim Morrison & The Doors- Live At The Hollywood Bowl (1968) Spanish Caravan

Source:Celia Munoz- Jim Morrison and The Doors: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, in 1968.

"Spanish Caravan-The Doors. The Doors, The Doors, The Doors." 

From Celia Munoz 

Source:The Daily Journal- Jim Morrison and The Doors: Live At The Hollywood Bowl, in 1968.

Spanish Caravan is not one of my favorite songs, even from The Doors. But their 1968 performance at the Hollywood Bowl, is very memorable. And part of that being that Jim Morrison was little off his game and acting somewhat distracted. Perhaps because his girlfriend Pam Courson shows up at the concert with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, but you would have to ask them that. 

Morrison's voice and delivery was somewhat off, but he was still The Lizard King in this performance. Showing up in his favorite skin-tight brown leather jeans and concho belt and starting off the concert with an Indian vest. Rare you see The Lizard King in his brown leather jeans for a concert performance, a 90 minute performance in color. He generally wore his black leathers when performing in color. 

If you watch the PBS film When You're Strange about Jim Morrison, the narrator Johnny Depp, was talking about Morrison's wardrobe. And said that he put together his own wardrobe. Including the leather jeans and said that Morrison wore the the leathers and concho belt, to accentuate his crotch. You watch this concert and you'll see what that is exactly about with all the closeups upfront of The Lizard King. 

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The Doors: Jim Morrison- 'No One Gets Out Here Alive- Gloria'

Source:The Doors- Jim Morrison & The Doors: Live in London 1968.

"The Doors - Gloria (60s) No One Here Gets Out Alive" 

From  The Doors

No One Gets Out Here Alive, is biography of Jim Morrison and his involvement with the blues rock band The Doors in the late 1960s. I would argue at least the best rock band (except for perhaps Aerosmith) from the generation. People who came of age in the 1960s looking for a new life from which they had grew up in and also which their parents and grandparents grew up in. 

Jim Morrison who was as anti-establishment as any vocalist and musician at least from Baby Boom Generation, was the vocalist and leader of The Doors. He was their star and The Doors were only as good and great as Jim Morrison was. 

The Lizard King was so good that he could be great on stage drunk, or sober. He could also be awful when he was drunk and just plain rude and obnoxious to the point where he was arrested onstage for foul language in 1967 in New Haven, but he could also give great performances while he was drunk. Like in London, Copenhagen and several other venues. And had he not have died early in 1970 and got his life on track and became more responsible, would probably still be performing today at the age of 73. 

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NBA-TV: Vintage NBA- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Source:NBA-TV- NBA writer Peter Vecsey talking about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

"Looking Back: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar NBA Career" 

From VN Breyes 

If the 1970s and 1980s are the two best decades of the NBA as far as the quality of play, the players, the teams, perhaps not every year of the 1970s, but certainly the 1980s, it's hard to argue that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is not the best player ever, simply because he was the best player from the best era of the NBA. You could argue that Earvin Johnson and Larry Bird were better all around players during the 2nd half of the 1980s, but I don't think you can say they were the best players in the NBA for as long as Kareem was. 

I don't think there is a better two-play player than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think what makes players like Kareem, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, more special than other great players, is because they weren't just great two-way players, but they were dominant two-way players. 

Kareem is probably the best offensive player ever, but he's also one of the best defensive players ever. That's why I have him over even his own teammate Earvin Magic Johnson who was certainly the best player in the NBA, at least in the 2nd hall of the 1980s. But Kareem was a better two-way player. 

CBS: Early Show- Anthony Mason- 'Patti Smith on Jim Morrison'

Source:CBS- CBS News anchor Anthony Mason, interviewing rocker chick Patti Smith.

"Singer Patti Smith discusses her feelings about Jim Morrison, his music, and the first time she met him."

From CBS

I'm guessing Jim Morrison inspired a lot of fellow baby boomers. Patti Smith saying that Jim Morrison was a great poet, I don't know about that not being a poetry fan, or someone who knows much if anything about poetry other than words in poems tend to rhyme. But I do believe The Lizard King was a great writer and a great performer. Roadhouse Blues, I believe is The Doors best song and I believe would give Eric Clapton a run for his money when it comes to blues and blues rock. 

The Doors were not a hippie band, but a 1960s baby boomer (except for Ray Manzarek, born in 1939) blues rock rock and roll band. And Jim Morrison was their star and leader and without him and you replace The Lizard King with a solid vocalist and entertainer, you still have a very good rock band. But they would be like Aerosmith without either Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. Very solid, but unless the replacements were also great, nothing really exceptional about the band. Morrison was the franchise player for The Doors. 

Wet Leather Biker: Erbo Rocker Leather Jeans

Source:Wet Leather Biker- Rocker leather jeans for men.

"Erbo Rocker leather pants with wide legs from the 80´s.....sorry, have to let the legs out more - at the moment a bit short - but just bought them on ebay....

From Wet Leather Biker

Rocker leather jeans? They look more like cowboy leather jeans that cowboys and other westerners wear, including cowgirls when they' are on their horses, ranches, and involved in other western activities.

With the chain wallet that the man is wearing in the photo and video, those are very common with biker men and to some extent biker women. Who wear chain wallets both with their leather and denim jeans and they're out on their bikes. For obvious reasons and style is one of them, but to protect their wallets when they're on the road, as well as around other bikers and people involved in biker culture.

Leather jeans of course are very common in rock and roll culture. People in that community can thank Jim Morrison from The Doors for that. But leather jeans, leather jackets, leather boots, and other leather clothing, have been a big part of rock culture at least since the early 1980s with the heavy metal wave, if not the late 1970s.

Jim Morrison from the late 1960s was really the first famous rocker to wear a leather suit that included black leather jeans, black leather jacket and black cowboy boots. 

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Oscars: Grace Kelly- Receiving an Oscar For Country Girl (1955)

Source:Oscars- The Amazing Grace Kelly, winning an Oscar for Country Girl, in 1955. 

"Grace Kelly wins Best Actress for The Country Girl at the 27th Academy Awards. William Holden presents the award."

From Oscars

Never seen The Country Girl, or have even ever heard of The Country Girl. I’ve seen country girls and of course have heard of country girls. And I love them generally, because they tend to be very healthy women physically, who take care of themselves and love how they look and present themselves.

But as far as commenting on that movie, it would be like a blind man trying to land a 747 on someone’s driveway. Why bother risking that, with all the potential fallout that could come as a result.

But I’m familiar with Grace Kelly, the Amazing Grace and can easily see why she won an Oscar for a movie I’ve never heard of. She’s The Amazing Grace after all, who could making talking about the weather sound fascinating. Because that is how great of a voice she had and how great of an actress she was. 

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The Young Turks: 'Are African Americans Allowed To Criticize President Obama?'

To answer The Young Turks question: Apparently so because Cornel West and other far-leftist African Americans are criticizing President Obama all the time and accusing the President of not being "black enough", whatever the hell that means.

The Daily Beast: John Avlon, Meghan McCain & Mike Moynahan- 'Real Housewives of the CIA'

Source:The Daily Beast- John Avlon, Meghan McCain & Mike Moynihan.

“As new details emerge about Gen. David Petraeus’ affair with Paula Broadwell, Meghan McCain, Michael Moynihan, and John Avlon debate the scandal’s potential repercussions, on today’s NewsBeast.”

Source:The Daily Beast

Sounds like a real reality TV show in the works, perhaps Meghan McCain will produce it. You heard that here first. As far as David Petraeus and his sex scandal, I guess this is the clincher that American politics and government is never boring and why we have a political junky industry. And for so-called Progressives today ( I'm being too nice with the word Progressives ) I guess who believe that America should be more like France, well we are when it comes to our public officials and how they live their personal lives.

 Political junky, is no longer just a hobby for unemployed politicians who can't seem to win another public office and keep losing. And spend all of their free time, which is really all of their time, especially if they have a Congressional pension, watching C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC and FNC. But a way for writers and pundits to make their living. To tell Americans how much they don't know about American politics and government.

As far as Benghazi, if it wasn't for that story, what would House Republicans do? At least some of them like Speaker John Boehner, are smart enough to know they can't repeal ObamaCare in this Congress with a Democratic Senate and Democratic President, that the law is named after. Most of them probably never have any attention of leaving Congress, at least the House of Representatives. So they don't want to work with Senate Democrats to pass anything constructive that President Obama might actually sign. And risk being primaried and having to go home and work for a living. Like washing cars, or hosting radio talk shows, teaching gym in high school, or whatever they were doing in 2009 before they decided to run for the House. So all they have left in their one page playbook that a five-year could read is a bogus (to be too nice) Benghazi investigation.  

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Elio Blas: 'Janet Jackson Live- L'Olympia Paris (2011)'

Source:Elio Blas- Up Close and Personal, with Janet Jackson.

"Janet performing 'If+Scream+Rhythm Nation' at L'Olympia in Paris 27/06. 

Amazing concert!!" 

From Elio Blas

One of the sexiest performers of all-time. To call Janet Jackson a club dancer who is someone who see at clubs going off with all sorts of moves to the music is playing, would be accurate and wouldn't be giving her enough credit. She's made club dancing her profession, but she does it in front of 20,000 fans generally, depending on the size of the arena that she's playing at. 

Janet is so much better than even the most beautiful and sexiest club dancer with the tightest body outfit and all of the sexiest moves. She's made sex appeal an honorable profession, because she's not some strip dancer on the stage at some strip joint wearing basically nothing and showing off her boobs. She's fully dress and so are her backup dancers, but in tight outfits. Showing off their moves and bodies and not doing this to someone else's music, which is what a club dancer would do, but doing it to her music and the music she created and to her own songs and the albums that she created and has her name all over it. 

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The Daily Beast: Howard Kurtz & Bill Hemmer- 'The Next Four Years at Fox News'

Source:The Daily Beast- Howard Kurtz and Bill Hemmer talking about the future of Fox News.

“President Obama’s re-election might seem as nothing has changed, but that doesn’t mean it will be boring, says Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer. He talks with Spin Cycle’s Howard Kurtz about Megyn Kelly’s ‘awkward’ election night moment with Karl Rove, and why the astute viewer will watch all the news channels.” 

From The Daily Beast 

The next four years at Fox News will hopefully start with a revaluation of how the report the news. Because how they’re doing it now, is not helping and informing the people who they speak for which are right-wing Tea Party Republicans and the Far-Right in America.

Even if because Republicans actually believe a lot of the, lets call it spin that comes from FNC and take it seriously and many times it’s just half-truths if that, which leaves a lot of Republicans, especially the professionals who either are politicians themselves or work for politicians, with at best half of the news. As we saw with the polling of the Romney-Obama election.

In the last few days only FNC thought that Mitt Romney was going to win (or that’s what they were saying publicly) or even had a good shot at winning. Where the rest of the mainstream media saw a clear bounce or bump in the favor of President Obama. Especially in states like Florida and Virginia, over the weekend with Ohio never moving towards Governor Romney either.

It’s fine and I’m even for a news organization having their commentary that clearly leans in one direction or the other, I’m not getting on FNC for that. But what they need to do if they want to get taken seriously and be considered a credible source for news outside of the Republican Party, is separate news from commentary, which is what The Wall Street Journal does.

It’s fine a way to separate the news from the commentary. Take Sheppard Smith’s lead on this who actually has a real newscast, the FOX Report. Just report the news no matter who it hurts, or helps and then have your commentators explain what they think it means. As well as bringing in more inform commentators. Not relying so much on the Dick Morris’s and Karl Rove’s of the world who are really just there to speak for their side of the aisle, but bring in people who actually know what they are talking about. When you bring them in to talk about the issues. Which CNN does with Republicans consultant Alex Castollanos. 

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My Horse: Cruel Girl Jeans- How to Wear Jeans and Boots

Source:Cruel Girl Jeans- on display.

“Cruel Girl is the mostly widely recognized ladies’ jeans in the western industry because they make fashion authentic. MyHorse.com explores several Cruel Girl style jeans that will turn heads and be comfortable in the saddle.”

From Cruel Girl Jeans

One of the reasons why I love cowgirls and country girls in general (that is women) has to do with their style. They tend to be very healthy looking women who eat real food and real amounts of food, but eat healthy. They tend to be tall and curvy and generally at least curvy and that is because of their diets. Which tend to involve a lot of meat and potatoes. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, etc.

And of course their style, because country girls, Western girls, cowgirls, again because of their diets and lifestyles they tend to be very sexy and look great on the ranch and on their horses. And part of that has to do with their style. They love tight jeans both denim and leather. And they love Western boots including cowgirl boots, and cowboy hats, button-down shirts, western belts.

If you’re familiar with at least modern western movies, or Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits and River of No Return, in the 1950s, wears she’s wearing Levis and boots for a lot of both movies and mostly in River of No Return, or you so-called reality TV shows based on Western culture and women at ranches, you see exactly what I mean. Or The Dukes of Hazard with Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke and of course the country boys. And men such as myself love women like this.

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Michael Jackson Source: Janet Jackson- Sydney, Australia (2011)

Source:Michael Jackson Source- Janet Jackson: Up Close and Personal, in Sydney, Australia, in 2011.

"Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson 'Scream' Sydney, 8 November 2011" 

From Michael Jackson Source

Still a great album twenty years later. I remember Rhythm Nation very well, because I was in junior high at the time that it came out in 1989 and in high school in 1990-91 when the album was completed. Janet Jackson was all over MTV and VH1 (when they both played music videos) from 89-91, because her album was so popular and so were her videos.

Black Cat was number one for several weeks and so was Love Will Never Do. And it was in junior high when I finally became a music fan and got into rhythm and blues and classic rock, got my first walkman (as they were called back then) and was always listening to it when I was in the car and would even take it to school and sometimes go to sleep with it on. (Don’t try that at home, kids)

Janet Jackson is simply a very adorable, sexy, and intelligent performer and communicator. Even if you don’t like her you can’t help, but notice her and perhaps at least hear what she’s saying. Which I believe is when you know a performer and commentator has their audience. When the people are listening even if they don’t like what they’re hearing. 

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Miss Housegirl: Janet Jackson- 'Nasty Boys Live At The Billy Graham Civic Auditorium- 4/19/2011'

Source:Miss Housegirl- Up Close and Personal with R&B and Denim Diva and Goddess Janet Jackson, in 2011.

"Janet Jackson, Nasty Boys live at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, April 19, 2011"

Source:Miss Housegirl

Nasty baby live and in concert, with that tight-ass body and outfit. I know I'm being very direct here, but look at Janet Jackson in this video and you'll know why. 

Janet Jackson is about as adorable and sexy of a human being that you'll ever see. Rare you see a woman who is this cute to the point she could pass a a little girl when you look at that face, hear her voice and personality and yet is as sexy as any beautiful sexy woman in the prime of her life. And yet she's a hell of a singer and dancer as well. 

Janet is a truly special talent and performer that a person who is both blind and death, would have to notice if she's in their presence, especially if she's performing and it that person is a man would probably get the ride (in a sexual sense) of his lifetime that his sight and hearing would suddenly snap back. 

I just don't how else to describe a performer like Janet Jackson who is not only this good, but this attractive and sexy all at the same time. For a man performing with her, it's probably like being up close to his girlfriend and wife when they're with Janet and yet they're supposed to be working here. No one moves in, or fills out a pair of skin-tight, denim jeans, and leather boots, better or perhaps as well as Janet Jackson. She looks like she putting on a tight jean sex show or something and does it so professionally.