Weekend Edition: Open Letter to the Puppet’s Puppets

Dear Ellen Barkin,

I, and many, MANY others are aware of your Tweets.

“Yes I vote Pres Obama…to protect his ppl,ALL his ppl.The poor,the middle class,the jobless…the 1’s that need our help..I vote 4 humanity, (sic)”

“Right now he is the President of our country.He is our leader & we are his people, (sic)”

Not that I believe for a moment that YOU nor so very many in Hollywood have the sort of attention spam which might allow you to concentrate on more than 140 characters at a time, I shall, nonetheless, endeavor to educate the uneducatable.

YOU, Ms. Barkin, are OLD enough to know BETTER that your tweets indicate.

THIS, Ms. Barkin, is the United States of America.

Our founding document spells it out, in BIG bold letters…”We The People…” is how it starts.

WE the PEOPLE, Ms. Barkin and not OWNED by anyone. WE are NOT the PROPERTY of those we elect.

THEY WORK FOR US.

They SERVE WE the People NOT the other way around and that’s a very important distinction.

I don’t know, Ms. Barkin, if you were reared by socialists and communists, whether you learned it in school, in Hollywood or whether you are so desperate for an acting job that you are now trying to get on the good side of the Hollywood elite by trying to propagandize their ideology.

Whatever the case…

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Weekend Edition: Eastwood’s Sudden Impact

In life, there are many ways to know when you’ve “made it.”

Mostly it comes with success. Be it success in business or success in politics success is a measure of “making it.”

With success often comes the trappings of success. A nice home, a nice car or maybe the ability to travel at will without caring the cost.

Those are tangible examples of having “made it” but, there are other ways of knowing.

In the world of pop culture, one can also “make it” and not all examples are good.

For some unknown reason, many pop culture icons strive to “make it” through adverse behavior and there are a slew of really bad celebrity mug shots out there proving the point.

Still others “make it” by proving Darwin was right. Case in point:

Timothy Treadwell believe he was one with grizzly bears. A bear enthusiast for years, he went to live with the beasts in Katmai National Park, Alaska in 1990. After 13 years, the Grizzly Manand his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, who shared his belief that they, and the grizzlies, were on the same page, discovered they were, in fact…Not.

They were killed and mostly eaten by their neighbors gaining them both a Darwin Award.

Treadwell and Huguenard “made it” as urban legends.

Last week, a very unusual occurrence of “making it” occurred. It was not so unusual that this man “made it” but that he, “made it”…AGAIN.

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