Alec Baldwin's Faux Paux

You know...The news in this country is getting goofier by day...As the above Saturday Night Skit shows. By now, unless you were living under a rock (or wished you were),you've no doubt heard about Alec Baldwin's rowdy dow on an American Airlines Flight last week.

He was sitting in First Class playing on his IPAD..They asked him as they ask everybody to simply turn all electronic instruments off until the plane is up in the air and at cruising altitude...A simple request.

Alec Baldwin instead chose to act like a spoiled celebrity and refuse to turn his ipad off..Not only that, he got up and slammed the door so hard that the flight crew heard it.

He was then not only asked, but put off of the plane. This somehow became a media sensation that has been talked about ad nauseum for days now...(Which is why I'm writing about it now I suppose!)

He tweeted his side of the story and then a few days ago, went on Saturday Night Live and parodied the entire event. American Airlines is not laughing though..Apparently they want to play tit for tat and have decided to pull all of the episodes of Alec's sitcom "30 Rock" off of it's flights! That'll show him!



To be sure there is childishness on both sides of this story...I actually wonder why American Airlines even cares what he says or parodies...They put him off the plane..story over. He acted like a boorish ,spoiled celebrity for his part...These people were just doing their jobs...His behavior wasn't and isn't funny..Not to me and their small mindedness and pettyness in trying to pull his show off of heir flights is just as childish...

Like I always say...I can't make this stuff up...Maybe I'll make that into a recurring column next year.

5 Questions

1.How are you different Now?

"I guess I would say that at the age of 50 plus...I'm a lot more mellower than I was say twenty years ago..I'm not so much the smart ass that I used to be...And that's a good thing.. I've let some of the edge off."


2.What do you do for relaxation now of days?

"I used to take long walks and wind up all over the map and have no idea how I got there... Now I find that I like driving..Taking a long drive someplace.  It was probably better health wise to walk..but what can I say..I really enjoy driving..and not just my car..All kinds of cars...I rent cars for fun sometimes...Just to have the feel of driving something different."

3. You Have Money To Burn Like That?

"No ,not really...but look...Life is short...Might as well do something you enjoy....and not stress about cash...Money has no owners..only spenders....As long as I have enough to pay my bills and a little in reserve,I don't stress..."

4.In some of your posts ,you've been having a field day with Herman Cain ...Do you really dislike the man that much?"

''I don't dislike the man at all... I don't believe the things that come out of his mouth and I don't think he believes the things that come out of his mouth either.  I could have told you that the minute he started surging in the polls, (which was a complete surprise to me) that the women would start showing up out of his past...There was a different woman every week..Now that he's out of the race..do you notice that all of these women have grown silent?  Co-Incidence?? I think not!"


5." Anything you'd like to see on the big screen over the holidays?"

  "There are no movies out that I'm interested in, but I would like to go to New York City and see that play with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in it. I can't think of the name of it..but Samuel L. plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the last night of his life and Angela Bassett plays a motel maid at the Lorraine Motel, which by the way I visited this past summer when I was in Memphis. I hear that this play is fantastic."

Keith's Favorite Quotes

"We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find."

- Author Unknown

Keith's Music Spotlight

Beautiful love song for a nice fall afternoon...by Ledsi..featuring Jaheim!

Weekend Humor ,(Yeah They Really Said That!)

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

--Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you'll lose a very important part of your life."

-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become Spokesperson for federal anti smoking campaign

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC


"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
--A congressional candidate in Texas

(This above quote was so stupid, we really didn't want to embarrass whoever said it...so no photo was used. )

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
--Al Gore, Vice President

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
--Dan Quayle

"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."
--Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor 

"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

--Al Gore, VP


I really thought I'd have more Dan Quayle quotes....Have a great weekend everybody!

The Would Be Power broker

Through with running for President, Donald Trump has now decided to be what we all knew he was in the first place...a carnival barker....or rather a power broker, a king maker.

With the cast of clowns that is practically every Republican nominee, I wish him luck. Well actually..No I don't...


Donald Trump has invited all the Republican presidential candidates to a debate. Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman promptly and properly turned down the offer.

In contrast, Newt Gingrich, hoping for a Trump endorsement, made a pilgrimage to the " Donald".

One must understand from the door that this is not some gracious offer by Donald Trump to conduct a a fair responsible debate. This is just another self-serving promotion by Donald Trump, for who else?, Donald Trump, to put none other than, drum roll please.. Donald Trump into the spotlight as kingmaker and power broker.

In Response to the Donald's Offer Ron Paul’s campaign chairman said “The selection of a reality television personality to host a presidential debate that voters nationwide will be watching is beneath the office of the Presidency and flies in the face of that office’s history and dignity." I couldn't have said it better myself. My thoughts exactly.

I feel that Donald Trump’s participation as moderator will distract from questions and answers concerning important issues such as the national economy, crushing federal government debt, the role of the federal government, foreign policy, and the like. To be sure, Donald Trump’s participation will contribute to an unwanted circus-like atmosphere”.

Then again..it's not like these guys were actually going to talk about that stuff in the first place.

Here's something to think about....Ron Paul and John Huntsman are the only candidates with enough common sense to see what the proposal by Donald Trump is really all about, and promptly declined his offer.

Also note that both Ron Paul and John Huntsman, unlike the other Republican candidates are the only ones to put forth serious economic proposals. Moreover, neither is likely to start another major war either....

So...there you have it....Another circus production by the P.T. Barnum of Economics and Politics himself...Enjoy...I won't be watching that circus.

Nullified

Stories like this bug me anyway..Would bug me anyway, but in 2011, so called "Post -Racial America..they bug me immensely....We are supposed to be past this....sadly..we and by WE, I mean all of us...All of us so called advanced species of the human race should be beyond this.


The pastor at a small Kentucky church says he has nullified a vote by parishioners that banned interracial couples from the church. I first heard this story over the weekend...I purposely waited to see what the outcome was going to be.

"As far as I'm concerned and the church is concerned, this case will be closed as of tomorrow," Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church pastor Stacy Stepp said on Saturday, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. "We will...get back on the right track and continue to win souls for the Lord."

Pastor Stepp, who said he opposed the vote, declared it null and void after approaching the Sandy Valley Conference of Free Will Baptists, which consists of 13 Pike County churches.

The conference met on Saturday and released a statement saying it had reviewed the situation and concluded that the vote was of no effect because it, "was not carried out in accordance with" Robert's Rules of Order, (Is that all?)according to the Lexington Herald-Leader, and would therefore require a change in the church bylaws.

The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church voted nine to six on Nov. 27 to ban interracial couples from church services or functions, with the exception of funerals.(Are you kidding me?)

Stella Harville, 24, and her fiance Ticha Chikuni, 28, are the couple that prompted the church's actions. Harville is white and Chikuni is black. The couple met at Georgetown College in Kentucky, where both were students, and they plan to marry in July 2012.

You know ,my question is...Why did there have to be a vote in the first place?  Here are two people who come into a house of worship...A place to worship a God, who I hope and believe loves us all, regardless of what we look like...and these so called "Good Christians " voted to ban them... Is there any wonder why so many people don't even bother to go to church on Sunday?  It's hypocrisy like this...

It's Over!

On Friday, Bishop Eddie Long's wife finally had enough....Or did she?  She announced early Friday Morning that she was terminating her marriage to the popular Bishop and head of a Mega Church in Atlanta who has been involved in several scandals involving young boys who claimed he plied them with generous gifts and money and trips in exchange for sex.

These allegations all seemed strange coming from one of the most rabid anti-gay Ministers and activists around. Yet they came...First three boys , then a fourth.  Bishop Long paid them for their silence and then a fifth boy came forward!!!!

Mrs. Long had enough...so she filed for divorce.  Before I could gather my notes and begin writing this ..She had a change of heart and decided to stick it out....When I woke up Saturday morning...She had changed her mind again...as a woman is wont to do...(I always wanted to write that phrase "As a woman is wont to do!)

The divorce papers have been filed again.

Herman Cain!  Herman. Herman,Herman, Herman, Herman!!!!  I hope this is the very last time I have to write about you..

Herman "Big Daddy " Cain has "suspended" his campaign....His wife told him that she just can't take the intense scrutiny and the allegations any longer. So....thus ends one of the most entertaining republican campaigns of the year...

Perhaps the ladies will all return to their closets or where ever they had been hanging out before the campaign started...The money has been paid for their services quietly and someone somewhere is being congratulated for a job well done.....

I know...It's the conspiracy theorist in me....but one thing is for sure....As for the public careers of these two men there is but two words to describe it.... It's Over!

Keith's Favorite Quotes

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
 


James Baldwin (1924-1987)
Nobody Knows My Name (1961)

Keith's Music Spotlight

Love this new song by Johnny Gill...Glad to see some of the 90's icons returning to the charts!




Enjoy this video...Hope it gets you in the mood!

Weekend Humor

Once there was a millionaire, who collected live alligators. He kept them in the pool in back of his mansion. The millionaire also had a beautiful daughter who was single.

One day he decides to throw a huge party, and during the party he announces, "My dear guests . . . I have a proposition to every man here. I will give one million dollars or my daughter to the man who can swim across this pool full of alligators and emerge alive!"

As soon as he finished his last word, there was the sound of a large splash!! There was one guy in the pool swimming with all he could and screaming out of fear. The crowd cheered him on as he kept stroking as though he was running for his life. Finally, he made it to the other side with only a torn shirt and some minor injuries. The millionaire was impressed.

He said, "My boy that was incredible! Fantastic! I didn't think it could be done! Well I must keep my end of the bargain. Do you want my daughter or the one million dollars?"

The guy says, "Listen, I don't want your money, nor do I want your daughter! I want the person who pushed me in that damn water!"

THIS IS MY 2000TH POST!     Have a great weekend everybody!

What I've Learned

1.Some people get you and some people don't.

2.People with no sense of humor never get the joke.

3.If it's the right chair...It don't take too long to get comfortable in it!

4.Given the right reasons and the right two people, marriage is a wonderful way of experiencing your life.

5.I'm glad people can't really read minds, because If everybody knew the truth about everybody else's thoughts, there would be way more murders.

6.If Nothing Else..I'm Loyal...I'm a Philadelphia sports fan...I was born and raised here,I don't walk around with Dallas Cowboys jackets or Boston Celtics Jerseys like some of my fellow Philadelphians do when our teams are doing bad.

7. I believe writing is my way of compensating for the fact that I can't draw...

8.I don’t really think anybody’s necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in the middle of a sentence.

9.I guess it's a good thing to have a head of  gray hair.... Just ask a guy who's bald headed.

10.I'm not really as funny as I would like to believe I am.

Peace!