A Few Stupid Things

Sometimes this blog just writes itself... at least, that's what I used to say. I would sit here at my keyboard, not having a clue as to what I was going to write, then walk off into my bedroom, flip on CNN or Fox News and someone would almost always say something to make me angry and then I'd run back to my computer and bang out a post. Some of my best posts were written that way but, this ain't gonna be one of them. I'm telling you that from the door so that you won't be disappointed.

I'm going to bring up two things that I heard today which made me shake my head. One I've been hearing for close to two weeks that I hope is just a nasty tabloid rumor and the other, unfortunately is true but, stupid just the same.

First let me talk about Morgan Freeman. Here is an African American actor I have followed since he was on the Electric Company back in the early 70's. Here is a man I have followed, rooted for, and once said he was the finest American Actor in the game. Here is a man that I hear is slated to marry his step-granddaughter! Tell me this isn't true. Tell me that I could have picked something else to write about today or could have, maybe should have, chosen not to
write at all if this was all I had to talk about.

Listen. I heard that Morgan, who is 72 years old, was slated to marry his wife's granddaughter, (from a daughter produced in a previous relationship) for about two weeks now and I kept telling myself that I was not going to comment on this and I was not going to write about this... and, yet here I am. Forget that there really isn't any blood involved... she's 27 years old, he's 72 years old, and she was raised as his granddaughter. How creepy is that? I sure hope this isn't true but, I keep hearing it on the news, all over the internet, through e-mails, etc. Yuck! That's just too creepy for me. But, I'm gonna give Morgan the benefit of the doubt.

That other thing is the campaign this nutty soldier has begun, that the right-wing has taken up and given credence to. This soldier claims that he cannot be ordered to fight in Iraq because the present Commander in Chief has no authority to do so because he is not an American citizen and is in effect, not the President. He is in office illegally.

According to this soldier, Barack Obama has no American birth certificate and was actually born in Guam or the Phillipines and not on American soil, as he claims. Thus, this disqualifies him for the office of the presidency. You know, I would have laughed at this and ignored it, except that some credible people, who should have known better, took this case up and turned it into a kind of movement to discredit President Obama once again.

Somebody should have told this soldier, (who really just doesn't want to go back to the dessert and is milking this for all he can get) that Guam and the Phillipines are American possessions and territories... so technically, even if he had been born there, he still would have been an American citizen. Today, the President's birth certificate surfaced and surprise, surprise... he was born in the state of Hawaii, (Did you hear that, idiots?) the 50th state of Hawaii, City of Honolulu in August of 1961. I think that makes him as American as apple pie. So, nutty soldier, pack your gear and report for duty. Nutty right-wing politicos, shame on you.

That's what I love about this blogging thing... it doesn't take that much to give me a post. All I need to do is turn on the television or read a newspaper. For this blog, I don't even need my imagination. Life, as it turns out, is more bizarre than anything I can cook up!