Air America

Can I just say how much this AM radio dial means to me. Stephanie Miller in the morning; I used to listen to her late at night in the mid - 90's after I would get done teaching aerobics in the valley. And I said then as I say now, this chica has talent, brains and humor. And lo ten years later, she gets me thru the morning. Stephanie and the mooks - I LOVES YA!

Then there's Thom Hartman. Is this not the smartest guy on the radio - EVER!!!! I find myself listening intently to the minutia of oh so many bills, clutching the stearing wheel of my car. And then afterwards asking myself, can you believe you were actually listening to trade issues related to early american tariffs?????

Randi Rhodes is a category all by herself. My petit rather elderly mother in Arizona who had moved there after living 65 years in North Dakota, loves her. BUT, she asks, is she a big black woman from New York? Not that that matters...to which I laugh uproariously. No mother, she's a HOT jewish girl from Florida who now lives in New York. Oh, ok I guess I like her then. Altho I don't always agree with Randi, she sounds a lot like my late friend and mentor in the advertising business, Harry Taylor that I adore her as much as I adored him. God grant him peace.

And then there's Ed Schultz. I remember when he used to coach football. That's how far Eddie and I go back. I was there in Fargo when he was the local golden boy. AND I LIKED HIM THEM. I am so proud of him and Fargo for having succeeded in creating a national show that is true and honest and progressive. If there was anyway they could use me here in Los Angeles, I would.

I sometimes feel like Forrest Gump in that I've been on the edge of so many popular things........

RUN FOREST RUN !!!!!

Fargo and North Dakota are about those spirits I've mentioned before. Education, Responsibility Tolerance, and care.

Armchair quarterbacking and John Kerry

Alright, so on TPM (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) there is a special clip of John Kerry and John McCain from last Sunday's NBC's Meet the Press. Go see the clip.

I freely admit I contributed to the Kerry Campaign--and I voted enthusiastically for him.

As of late, I am so sick of those individuals who fault him for his campaign and for NOT winning. From the campaign manager who was a putz to all the left leaning media and blogs who reem him for not attacking back after the swift boat advertising blitz. Yes, there were campaign faults. However, look at the salient points:

The election was stolen in Ohio as it was in Florida in '00. Blame our own inability to fight back and challenge, blame our own inability to get more voting machines, blame our own inability to challenge as those fanatics did in Florida in 2000--those same individuals who have been appointed to various positions in the Justice Department.

That man John Kerry has more integrity and honor than at least 99% of the current US Senate who think they should be president. But we know now from experience that the man or woman who should be president won't be president, if we don't fight smartly and aggressively on the ground. Sorry folks, we have to roll up our own sleeves and deal with the slings and arrows thrown at our person, our party, and our leader in order to vefrify their ascension to that office.

Al Gore should have been President for the past 8 years and then maybe John Kerry would have continued that legacy.... the Goracle could have created that permanent Democratic Majority that FDR bequethed us, had it not been for that poison of the Republican Party that now controls said same institution.

These were the lessons to be learned.

While nostalgia harkens for a more bipartisan world where we as life long liberals pine for the likes of a Teddy Roosevelt or an Eisenhower, or even a Nelson Rockefeller who understood that when it came to principles, when it was proper to challenge and debate and even differ, as americans Democrat or Republican, we still care for the U.S. Consititution. and what it still means and stands for, for each and every one of us - each man , woman, black or white, german or italaian, persecuted or not, this is the land that says "Come to me, your sick, your afflicted, your torn. Regardless, my beacon shines to protect all those who huddle in fear. For I am the United States of America !

FOR WE ARE THAT CITY ON THE HILL, WELCOMING ALL WHO DESIRE FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. For this ALL WE ASK IS THAT YOU TAKE PART IN THIS THING CALLED DEMOCRACY. That you pay your fair share of taxes, that you become involved in your community and that you commit your families to education, and that above all else, YOU VOTE. For it is that educated, participating electorate, thru our educated children, in whom we place our faith and trust to navigate our ship of state to protect us all.

This trust has been encapsulated in our U.S. Constitution and our U.S. Bill of RIghts. Print them out in a small handpaper form and carry them with you.This is the evidence of that brilliance of our many Congressional Forefathers - who knew of what they spoke. These were men and women who faced the fears of their convictions, knowing, that there is a promised land -- that being our land, the United States of America.

It is at this point that one should pause and however each individual chooses to personally honor, those brave souls of 220 years ago, who were deemed "traitor" upon affixing their seals of approval to said documents. Yet they did. For they knew in their hearts and minds, that this experiment called Democracy was worth their very own hearts and minds. They forefeit their lives for taking such a stand; can you say that you have taken such a stand to uphold their honor?

They took a chance, a chance that could have cost them their lives, to form a more perfect union. How is it today that you honor those choices. By restricting Habeous Corpus? By politicizing the Justice Department? By not taking care of our own after Katrina? By letting 47 million of your fellow brethren suffer with no health insurance? By making the elderly choose between rent and medication? By allowing the youth of this nation to choose between schools and gangs?

My heart goes out to those Iraqis we are trying to liberate. However, my heart bleeds, my heart rends, my heart aches for those Americans we have not been able to heal and educate because of some leaders misguided illusions of grandeur. There was a phrase that I think is appropriate. Wherein it said, Physician, Heal Thy Self. It is now time .....

America, Heal Thy Self. As we Heal ourselves and thrive, then can we truly try to help others.

Not until all of our service men and women are fully cared for, not until our fellow countrymen are healed and care for, can we justly go about healing and caring for the world. Our family first.

This is the least we can do to honor those men and women from so long ago who risked life and livliehood and as NPR said this morning, ratified this document the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

Happy Birthday !!!!!

God Bless your souls and may you live forever in your makers kingdom.

Cate Blanchette Is AMAZING !

Ok, so on the side I work as a PA (Production Assistant) for both live events and photo shoots.

Yesterday I worked two photo shoots. One from 7.30 AM till 6:00 PM with Christie Brinkley and the next from 6:30 till 10:30 PM with Cate Blanchette.

Let me just say this, Christie Brinkely is just as beautiful today as she has ever been. And what a wonderful daughter she is; her parents came by the shoot and you could tell the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Her elderly mother had the same stunning smile as her daughter.

OMG - Cate has to be one of THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN that I have ever seen photographed. As I was already a fan from her performance in Elizabeth (the FIrst) and while I admired her work in both The Talented Mr. Ripley and Babel, nothing can compare to watching her in person.

Talent, brains, presonality, creativity and lastly looks - this is the definition of GLAMOUR.

BRAVA BRAVA to both women!

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