On The Shoulders Of Giants

When you think of taboos in American media, you think of anything sexual or something along those lines. I have a different opinion on this. I think the biggest taboo in media is to criticize the American people. Here is how it works. Broadcasters show ads to make money. If the media start criticizing people, people are not going to like it and they will tune out and hence no money.

In the past few weeks many in media have asked a question like this “80% of American people think the country is on the wrong track. Why does this election not look like a landslide?” And many political pundits and strategists have to beat around the bush and come up with nonsensical answers. Answers like “People need to get to know Obama more.” or “Obama has to lay out the details of his plans”. I think people have heard more about Obama and his story more than any other candidate and Obama has laid out his plans. Most of it is on his website, if anybody bothers to read. I think the answer is much simpler. Many white Americans would not vote for a black man, period. They would rather have four more disastrous years than have a black president. Racism can be more powerful than slavery. Bob Herbert of New York Times gently explains it.

If Bill and Hillary Clinton would not stop “running rats” into this show as of today, I will have no respect left for them. I will be watching you tonight Hillary Clinton.

So finally Barack made his decision about his vice presidential running mate and all I can say is that I’m very happy with the choice he made. The more I read about Biden, the more I like this guy and have respect for him.

Last Saturday Barack Obama and John McCain appeared at Rick Warren’s church and answered some questions. There is one question that in my mind stands out. They were asked what income level do you consider “rich”? To which Obama responded with $250,000 and McCain responded with $5,000,000. I don’t think there’s anything that exemplifies the difference between these two candidates more than these two numbers. McCain said that he doesn’t want to redistribute wealth. Well, I’ve got some news for you Mr. McCain. Maybe if A is making more than a million dollars a year and there’s a veteran in a wheelchair who can’t go to work, some redistribution of wealth would not only be Ok but would be humane. Jesus, these people are so selfish.

If you would like to read something really spicey, check this out. I give it eight red peppers out of ten.

Check out the political vidoes of The Young Turks. This kid has potential in politics.

Today was a good day and I’ll tell you why, if you’re interested.

Today was the second day of me borrowing Hani’s car. I woke up at 8 by a call from them regarding a form 54. I went back to bed and hibernated until H called me out of bed sometime after 10. I drove her to a doctor’s office and came back home. Showered, printed the aforementioned form, called my sister and chatted with her and by the way, she is doing pretty well. I picked up H and we went grocery shopping and we went nuts on the produce and got sandwiches from the deli. Came home, stuffed the fridge and had lunch. Then, we went to UCSB, I took all my books from my office in preparation for turning in the key. We parked the car, H went to College of Creative Studies to inquire about joining the program. I went to the library and picked up three books on public relations (of all things). I went to grad division and asked about my graduation. I faxed form 54 to them, found H and went to the admissions office together only to find it closed. One of us is leaving and the other is coming. On our way back we filled the tank and took the car to car wash.

When home, our neighbor and her two sons came over and talked Spanish with H for a while. They are a lovely and vulnerable immigrant family. I showed a vidoe of my nephew, Ali, to the boys. They are so shy and don’t understand English. They left. I went to my room, sat on my phone chair and talked to Negar. As I was talking to her, two gigantic twin dogs walked into my room and started sniffing and licking me. I was like “What’s going on?” It turned out they were neighbor’s dogs and they had just wandered in. I talked to Kambiz. He wanted some clarification about my my blog invitation email. He is starting business school in a month.

I dropped off H at her massage parlor at 6:45 and went to ACE to return the shower extension thingy, only to find the return department closed. This was the second time this happened today. I dropped off the Krishnamurti books at the public library and went to Borders. I went to the business section and got two business books and a book on branding. I paid for the books and asked to speak to the manager. I told the manager that I was disappointed that my favorite bookstore puts the Obama Nation book which is full of lies as their number one display book. Yes, I did stand up for Barack. She thanked me and gave me the corporate number to call. I drove to Hani’s apartment and called him out. He gave me a ride home. I asked about his two labor papers and complained that he hasn’t sent me a copy of the first one. He said he will. Tomorrow we are going out for his birthday. I got home, did the dishes and now I’m listening to Nordic Lounge and writing this and it is 9:39 pm PST.

I’m feeling very optimistic about the business right now. I have to stay up late tonight and do a lot of writing and reading. So long.

I want to use some of my “street cred” and make a prediction: Russia will overthrow the Georgian government within weeks and the West can’t and won’t do jack about it.

It is so insulting to our intelligence when people try to sweep their nasty stuff under big news stories such as the Olympics.

Russia attacked Georgia on the opening day. I still need to read more about this.

And John Edwards dropped his infidelity bomb on the same day. I don’t care if he cheated on his wife. What I care about is that he ran for presidency while he had these skeletons in his closet and he lied about it and when #$%! finally hit the fan, he admitted it and said “I didn’t love her.” and “My wife’s cancer was in remission.” And all along we thought he was the son of a mill worker, a family man and he was championing the common person. How narcissistic and classless? Beware of this power thing. It is very toxic.

I bought some potatoes about a month ago. I just put them - with some salt and olive oil - in the oven to bake them. Potatoes are patient with me. I like potatoes.