Bill O'Reilly

I honestly had a field day on YouTube, looking at all the Bill O'Reilly video clips. I never watched his show before and from what I watched, I can tell that he is indeed a lunatic. I do not know where to begin, but this the first video I watched of this guy is what I would like to talk about. As seen in this clip, he will more then likely become belligerent as the discussion goes along with every guest. He attempts to start off strong with his ignorant personality, but at the mid point of the interview he begins to get loud and uncontrollable. It is either a win or lose situation from there. He knows he is such an asshole with his guests that he overpowers them unless their knowledge is consistent. A few of O'Reilly's guests like Phil Donahue will win the argument and make him look like a fool. I personally hate Bill O’Reilly after watching this and other videos of him. On the contrary, some viewers of this interview are saying that O’Reilly was the winner of this heated battle. I hate to be judgmental but those who think that obviously are stupid because he never proved Donahue wrong, the climax of his argument was “I'll bot you right off the set!” After the shouting ended, he more than likely got a cue from the people in his ear telling him that he lost the battle and to end it. Phil Donahue used his intelligence about how this war is unconstitutional which shut Bill right up. Another guest on Bill O’Reilly’s show that shuts him up and is a good watch is Stephen Colbert.

"Boomsday"

I just finished the book that i chose to read for the class entitled, "Boomsday". I stayed up all night reading it and finished it around 8am. I have mixed feelings on it, but I enjoyed the political satire and what the book was about. It was oddly enough about a blogger. Except Cassandra Devine's, the main character, blog became so popular that it caused a revolution against retirement centers/golf courses and the government. Her blog is called CASSANDRA, which stands for Concerned Americans for Social Security Amendment Now, Debt Reduction and Accountability. Her father is the main reason why she is blogging against his generation, the baby boomers. She wisely proclaims that since the baby boomers are getting old enough to retire, there is going to be an overwhelming amount of people getting Social Security. That would end up putting her and future generations in a great amount of debt with paying all these taxes for the retired “snobs”. There are so many characters and so much going on that it is hard to follow what is going on at some points. It would be to hard to sum in a couple sentences because of all the plots. Cass ends up having a little relationship with a Senator that is pursuing to become president. The idea of, “voluntary transitioning”, thought out by Cass, was the process of generations volunteering to kill themselves at age 75 which technically would end the Social Security problem. It gets its recognition from the election and overall it gets really intense. This book is a wild ride and it makes the government look like idiots which is good in my book.

Bush

I am going to be honest and start off by saying that since I was not really active in gaining knowledge about politics in the past election with Bush, I may not know how much of an idiot George W. Bush really is. However since I live in the United States, I do know for a fact the he is indeed a moron. I cannot begin to list the ridiculous actions he did or still does, like this interview. He fucked up big time, without a doubt, and I see this headline on my homepage, www.cnn.com, about how he is going to write a book about his regrets. The thought that came to my head immediately was how is this idiot going to write a book and actually get it published. Bush most certainly cannot write a book by himself. He is going to have writers left and right, if he actually pulls through and decides to write a book about him screwing up our country. He use to be intelligent and he must have been, I mean it is a possibilty he might have not been, but to actually go through everything in order to become the president, he must have been somewhat intellectual. That was the past, nowadays he is not capable to write a book and even let alone make any smart decisions. That is what he is supposed to write about, making dumb decisions. That headline I saw lead me to this video on his first interview since Obama won the election. First of all this interview does not even look real, it looks like they had a Bush fill in when the shots of the interviewer were shown, but the moral of this is, George Bush was a horrible president.

news news news

http://www.kitv.com/politics/17860890/detail.html?rss=hon&psp=news

So apparently Barrack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate has been proved to be legitimate. Apparently I am not good at following news either. I tried to find recent news about the controversy of his birth certificate when I found out about it in class the other day and I failed. Maybe it is because I have a short attention span and did not try hard enough. Whatever it is, I could not find anything while I talked to my friend about it and he found something first try. I was talking to him about the whole ordeal and he gets hostile and argumentative about politics and has to have the last word. I showed him this video and he showed me the link to completely shut down the conversation. Anyway, both of these forms of communication were released in October. The news article came out more recent then the video, which proves the video to be false, as far myself, an audience member knows. I never know where to stand on politics, because I would like to say that all the rumors and all the doubts on his birth certificate have been officially proved wrong, because I will never the real truth. The government who knows the real truth about the birth certificate can do whatever they please. But as far as I am concerned all the rumors are indeed false and this issue will not be brought up again. Obviously it must not be effective because voting starts in two days.

Christopher Buckley

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama

The author of the book I chose, “Boomsday”, wrote this blog entry on who and why he is voting for this year’s presidency. Christopher Buckley is a well know author but also well known for being the son of William F. Buckley who past away this year. I came across this article because it was the second hit on Google under of course, Wikipedia, when I was looking up some background information on my author. It must be important commentary come up as the second hit for Google. Christopher followed his father’s footsteps not only by becoming a write but also his conservative outlook. In this article he explains how it is the first time he is voting democratically this year, which is going against their republican tradition. He talks about how he first favored John McCain and eventually on how his campaign fell to pieces, to cause him to vote for Barrack Obama. I agree with everything he said and we kind have the same view, except he knows a lot more then I do when it comes to backing up your points. Also reading some of the comments below the article, the negative ones, also take part on influencing my under knowledge of knowing about the candidates, but that is beside the point. Barrack over McCain any day. Now what I like even more then the article itself is how well it was written. It makes me excited to read and finish one of his most popular books.

Street Art

http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/04/robert-banksy-street-graffiti-artist.html

http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html



Street art is something that has always interested me. Now that I live in the city I am around it all the time and I love it. I think graffiti is form of communication in the means of getting your name or art out there, by putting it in different places where people start to notice your stuff. Hopefully the feedback will be positive from the audience viewing your art, where they will stop and stare and be like “Wow that is awesome, or that is talented” Advertising one’s art is also very important by putting it in places where many people see it is key. On a side of a building or anywhere that is daring catches the views attention. Now the street artist named, Banksy, is amazing. He is a graffiti artist born in Britain that does works of art based on topics such as politics, ethics, and for entertainment. When someone becomes famous graffiti artist they have to tightly their identity under closed doors. He does work all over in places like, New York City, London, Australia, and many other cities, simply getting his name and art out there in the world and running from a lot of police. Banksy makes stencils of anything as you can see in the photo blog and his website. Besides his art being amazing the places where he puts is art is amazing as well. I am mind boggled anytime I see street art where it is anywhere when I am like, how in the fuck did you get up there, let only paint that monstrously big image. It’s crazy.

The man

I actually was able to watch this second presidential debate between Obama and McCain this past week. I was not satisfied in terms of enjoying my time watching it or being able to decide who I liked. I am not a fan of either but I would support Obama over McCain any day. I feel like either of them would not be fit to be a president for four years or more. McCain’s health issues make him very likely to die very soon. If he won the election then the worst would happen if he were to die while he was in office. The vide president Sarah Palin would now become president. HA! That would be ridiculous, actually let me rephrase that statement and say John McCain is ridiculous. He was entertaining to watch him stumble around with no podium in front of him to lean of and also watching him trying to make funny jokes about Obama. I came across this video which I also thought was hilarious he just out of nowhere calls Obama, "that one" haha. However as much I would support Obama over McCain I feel like Obama is like a preacher. When he speaks about what he plans to do he is giving like a gospel speech on changing this and changing that. I seriously hope if he wins he can stick to his word, which I know both of these guys never do. Let alone accomplish these tasks and pick up the United States through these future hardships.