After a long hiatus I’m back because I seen now that other people are standing up for what’s right and that’s the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

They’re all over the place nowadays and not just the U.S. but all around the world. This movement really has made an impact and is now part of the world stage.

This is how you protest, you become a pain in the ass. You don’t need to bomb things or set things on fire, just start some shit by being a royal pain.

Now Winter is approaching and the protesters are up against many challenges. However, they have far more advantages than protesters or people who had been under oppression before in the U.S.. One need only go back to the 1800s when the U.S. Government chased and slaughtered and imprisoned Native Americans. Even European Americans have suffered under the government as in the old mining and farming scandals.

What the OWS protesters should be protesting is betrayal. Betrayal from those whom they entrusted with their lives and money. It’s so apparent now that the bulk of the population is realizing that far too much of government policy, business policy, and more are rigged. In computer talk we call it “not user friendly”. Our educational system is a seedbed of corruption. Kids aren’t taught the fundamentals of survival within a capitalist system. They’re shoved through so they can go into deep debt by the time they’re out of college. If they get married, have children, get a home, they’re damn near half a million in the hole. Meanwhile jobs are sent overseas and there’s no hope in sight as the warnings that should have come didn’t. The mainstream media spent more time focusing on Britney Spears and Dancing With The Stars than warning us of the corruption that turned the U.S. into a desperate country.

So now tens of thousands of people in the U.S. are fighting back and it’s during a volatile presidential election year.

This is gonna be fun to watch.

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It had to happen. It was overdue. The tally is in and none other than actor Charlie Sheen has won the very first “START SHIT AWARD”!

This award is given to any person or group that rises above the average and starts enough shit that the world has to pay attention. This is an award to people who just don’t give a shit and are willing to stand up for what they believe in whether this website agrees with their opinions or not. It’s a matter of celebrating the people and groups that just don’t settle for anything less than their own ability to stand by their words and deeds and confront whatever is challenging them.

In recent memory, no one has started more shit than Charlie Sheen. He has literally taken over the world as he battles against major networks and critics. Dude had the #1 sitcom, has starred in major blockbuster movies, now has his own webcast, broke records on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace combined. and just won’t stop!

You’ve gotta give the man credit for standing his ground and he’s just the kind of Spanish man you just don’t want to mess with.

So here he is now awarded our very first “START SHIT AWARD”. Sheen beat out the demonstrators in Egypt who toppled their government because he didn’t beat up any reporters yet.

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I’ve always admired Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler. Now comes along this video that totally knocked me off my seat!

It’s the best video on the web in years.

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Rallying together to discuss the recent presidential debate, Republican candidates John McCain, Sarah Palin, and President Bush get together for photographs while discussing the latest campaign strategies.

NOT!
Of course this is a screen cap of the classic animated tv show “The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle”. I had to post it as the naughty got hold of me.

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Maybe I’m too old but if your running mate is a black guy you don’t use terms like “stymie” during your debate with him.

Next thing you know that “Little Rascals” music will start playing in the background.

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DAVID LETTERMAN DOGPILES ON JOHN MC CAIN

I thought this was part of a gag but late night talk show host David Letterman’s response to Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s dropping out of their scheduled interview has left CBS with egg on their face.

Letterman obviously peeved at the fact that McCain ditched their interview and instead chose to do one with Katie Couric made Dave sore and Dave showed his creative muscle by snagging an internal newsfeed of McCain gettin’ pretty for the Couric interview when he had told Letterman he’d be off to Washington to face the economic crisis.

Dave got the last laugh. Why? Because like most politicians McCain did a weasle for the pretty spot. He knew Letterman’s wit was too sharp for him. He knew Letterman was going to ask him the tough questions and he chickened out.

Well Dave threw down and started some shit so he gets this week’s “Star Shit Award” for starting the most shit as a talk show host.

Now I’ll have to make up some certificates and get a sculpture made.

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Okay this is too funny. Someone dug up Sarah Palin’s Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant video. The video speaks for itself.

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When I was a kid something happened so amazing we couldn’t beleive it as we watched. Right there on the evening news the newscasters were joking, laughing, and enjoying themselves while they delivered the news!

We thought something had gone wrong with the tv set and that someone was playing a joke on us. It was the early 1970′s and channel 7, ABC’s Eyewitness News broke with the stoic tradition of stark faced newsmen and turned into somewhat of a reflection of ourselves. They delivered the news, focused on the raw data but in their delivery the didn’t come off as drones but as real people who had real issues like the rest of us. Ratings boomed and legends were born and the sheer face of tv and radio news from then on changed to a more friendly, humane touch. Nowadays it’s a bit too over the top to the point of absurdity in many cases but it all began with Eyewitness News in NY.

If memory serves, Roger Grimsby, Bill Beutel, John Johnson, Melba Tolliver, Geraldo Rivera, Anna Bond, Doug Johnson, and the rest made us smile and put fear in the hearts of evil doers with their hard hitting reporting. It was a great time as Woodward and Bernstein were taking down President Nixon and his cronies and worldwide reporters found new courage and resources and we the people were being served the real news, no sugar coating it the way the Founding Fathers probably wanted it.

That team got me interested in the news biz. I remember one of the biggest kicks I’ve ever had is when in 1983 during a story about the bombing in Beirut Lebanon at the Marine Corps barracks, Roger Grimsby mentioned my name on the air. That’s a long story but I was working in a newsroom at the time at an historic newspaper and it was quite something.

Too bad nowadays the financial and military indtustrialists and tabloids have dominated. A great chance was lost but perhaps the internet has taken up the mantle of courageous journalism.

We’ll see.

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